How dense is dense enough for smart growth?
Smart-growth advocates in Minnesota's Twin Cities (average density: 1,800 people per square mile) say the Twin Cities area needs to be as dense as Portland (average density: 3,000 people per square mile).
Smart-growth advocates in Portland say Portland needs to be as dense as Los Angeles (average density: 5,600 per square mile). Smart-growth advocates in Los Angeles say Los Angeles needs to be as dense as Chicago (average density: 12,000 people per square mile).

Smart-growth advocates in Chicago say Chicago should be as dense as San Francisco (average density: 16,000 people per square mile). Smart-growth advocates in San Francisco want the city to be even denser still.
Where will it all end?

What's your preferred density?
Fortunately for a puzzled nation, the Sierra Club has answered this question in a Web page that calculates the "environmental impacts of density": http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/enviroimpacts.asp. You enter your preferred density in households per acre along with your idea of average automobile fuel efficiency (miles per gallon) and the price of gasoline. The Sierra Club then projects the environmental and social impacts of your density. For comparison, it includes the environmental and social impacts of the "efficient urban density" and a "sprawl density."
On June 19, the Web site indicated that the efficient urban density is 500 households per acre. Since the U.S. has an average of 2.4 people per household, this represents 1,200 people per acre, or 768,000 people per square mile. Manhattan, at only 52,000 people per square mile, has a ways to go before it reaches smart-growth perfection.
Demographer Wendell Cox (http://www.demographia.com) points out that the Sierra Club's "efficient urban density" is denser that the densest parts of Mumbai (Bombay) and Hong Kong. In fact, Cox adds, at this density everyone in the United States could fit into an area a little larger than Portland, Oregon's urban-growth boundary.
Perhaps in response to Cox's comments, on June 20 the Sierra Club modified the Web page to compare four different densities:
? "Dense urban," which is 400 households per acre, slightly less than the "efficient urban" of the day before;
? "Efficient urban," which is "only" 100 households per acre;
? "Efficient suburban," which is 10 households per acre; and
? "Sprawl," which the Sierra Club defines as one household per acre.

Twelve times Manhattan
Even the "efficient" urban density is incredibly dense compared to what most people are used to. One hundred households per acre is 153,600 people per square mile, or three times the density of Manhattan. The "dense urban" 400 households per acre is 614,400 people per square mile--nearly 12 times as dense as Manhattan.

Of course, 400 housing units could fit on an acre in a 20-story building, each story containing 20 apartments averaging a little over 2,000 square feet. Add four or five more stories for shops and offices and some underground parking and you have a nice dense city of 25-story buildings. But few cities have large areas of 25-story apartment/mixed-use buildings. Even in Manhattan, most residences are in four- to 10-story buildings.

But the so-called efficient density of 100 households per acre is scary enough. At that density, the population of the United States could fit in the Los Angeles urbanized area--call it "Sierra Club City." The entire population of the world would fit into the state of Virginia.

The Sierra Club assumes that all or nearly all office and retail establishments would be mixed in with the residential areas. It calculates that the efficient density would provide 48 "shopping opportunities per acre," whatever that means, as opposed to just 0.65 opportunities per acre at sprawl densities.

To be fair, some additional land would be needed for factories, warehouses, and other industrial areas. But that would still leave most of the rest of the world for farms, parks, and wilderness, which of course is the Sierra Club's goal.
How much land would Sierra Club City save? At the present time, U.S. cities, towns, and other urbanized areas occupy about 109,000 square miles of land. Roughly one-third of that is industrial. If Sierra Club City replaced the other two-thirds, that would allow the restoration of about 72,000 square miles of land to farms, forests, or nature preserves. That sounds like a lot, but it amounts to just 2 percent of the land area of the United States.
Of course, if Sierra Club City stacks industry in 25-story buildings too, then up to 3 percent of the nation's land could revert from urban uses to open space. Whether saving 2 or 3 percent is worthwhile depends on the costs of high-density living.

Dramatically increased congestion
Start with congestion. The Sierra Club says people living in sprawl densities of one household per acre would drive more than 32,000 miles per year. But at the efficient densities, says the club, they would drive only 7,600 miles per year, less than a fourth as much. Of course, with 100 times as many people per square mile, that means total driving would be nearly 24 times more per square mile in Sierra Club City than in sprawl.

Urban Americans drive an average of 40,000 miles per square mile of urbanized land each day. As the highest-density urban area, Los Angeles also has the highest density of driving: 124,000 miles per square mile of land.
But residents in the Sierra Club's efficient city would drive 1.3 million miles per day for each square mile of residential area. That's 33 times more than in the average urban area, and 10 times more than in Los Angeles.
Curiously, no matter what the population density, the Sierra Club model dedicates 93 acres of land per square mile to roads and sidewalks. It is not clear whether this is included in, or in addition to, household per-acre densities. Assuming it is in addition, then it represents about 13 percent of the land area, which is about right for suburban areas but far lower than the percentage of high-density urban areas that is devoted to streets.

Ninety-three acres divided into 12-foot lanes with three-foot sidewalks represents about 50 lane-miles of roadway. To handle 1.3 million miles of vehicle travel per day, each lane-mile of road would have to carry 1,100 vehicles per hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Non-freeway arterial lanes can handle just that number, while freeway lanes can handle twice this amount, and lesser streets (collectors and locals) do less.
Thus, Sierra Club City will be about as congested as Manhattan during rush hour--only congestion in Sierra Club city will be 24/7. The Sierra Club's "dense urban" density of 400 households per acre, of course, will be even worse: The club predicts people will drive more miles per lane mile than the best freeways can handle.
Increased air, water pollution

With this much traffic concentrated in a small area, Sierra Club City will be one of the most polluted cities in the history of humanity. The city will produce less pollution per capita than in a sprawling city, but it will be far more concentrated.

Typically, the Sierra Club model crudely assumes pollution is directly proportional to fuel consumption. The Web site asks you to enter the average fuel efficiency you imagine for your city and it calculates the pounds of hydrocarbons (volatile organic compounds), nitrogen oxides, particulates (PM10), and carbon dioxide that will be produced. The Sierra Club doesn't estimate carbon monoxide emissions, but autos tend to produce about 10 times as much CO as hydrocarbons.

The Sierra Club presents pollution in terms of pounds emitted per household each year. For carbon dioxide, which is implicated in global warming, total emissions may be crucial. But for many of the other pollutants, the problem is not total emissions but the concentration of emissions. Heavy concentrations of carbon monoxide and particulates, for example, pose extremely serious health risks, while low levels can be tolerated and ignored by most people.
Sierra Club City will produce extremely dangerous levels of these toxic pollutants. Based on the Sierra Club's numbers, automobiles in sprawl emit about 100 pounds of hydrocarbons, a half-ton of carbon monoxide, and 680 tons of particulates per square mile per day. But Sierra Club City will produce 2,340 pounds of hydrocarbons, nearly 12 tons of carbon monoxide, and more than 16,000 tons of particulates per square mile per day.

Since the Sierra Club model assumes emissions are proportional to fuel consumption, all pollutants will be 24 times as concentrated in Sierra Club City than in sprawl. But in fact, cars pollute more in stop-and-go traffic, and the extra congestion in Sierra Club City will make it even more polluted than the Sierra Club numbers indicate.
The Sierra Club model also claims high densities will produce less water pollution. "When more than 20% of the watershed is paved over and developed," says the club, "water pollution skyrockets." But a suburban neighborhood of one household per acre will have much less than 20 percent of its area paved over, while an urban jungle of 100 households per acre will be nearly all paved over. Thus, we can expect the most pollution from the urban area.
No less driving?

The Sierra Club's model is optimistic about the effects of density on driving. The model assumes that, at any density, doubling density reduces per-capita driving by 20 percent. This is about four times greater than can be observed by looking at U.S. urban areas. However, it is about the amount generated by studies that looked at driving habits of residents of individual neighborhoods of various densities.

The problem with such studies is they usually fail to control for family size, income level, and other factors that influence driving. A disproportionate number of people in high-density areas are either poor or have no children. They either can't afford to drive or have decided they would prefer to use transit. But this doesn't mean forcing a middle-class family of four to live in high densities will lead them to drive significantly less.
Even without this error, Sierra Club City--a permanently congested and dangerously polluted area--will be far less attractive to most Americans than sprawl. But smart-growth advocates will nevertheless press for increasing densities in virtually every U.S. city.

Randal O'Toole is senior economist with the Thoreau Institute and author of The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths. He can be reached by email at rot@ti.org, or visit the Thoreau Institute's Web site at www.ti.org.

Imagine that almost every city, county, town, and village in the United States has at least one communist on its staff--not a secret communist infiltrator, but someone whose job title is Communist, whose job description is to implement communism in that community, and whose job prerequisite is being a card-carrying member of the Communist Party.

Sounds pretty difficult to believe, doesn't it? But the most important part of soviet communism is central planning. Now go back to the previous paragraph and replace the word communist with planner, communism with planning, and Communist Party with American Planning Association. Then the paragraph turns out to be the absolute truth.
I'm not accusing planners of being communists. I'm accusing communists of being planners. The Soviet Union might have survived if it hadn't put planners in charge of everything from how much cement to produce to how many shoes to make and when fishing boats should dip their nets into the sea and when they should pull them out again.
In the United States, many planners agree with architect Andres Duany, who urges land-use planners to write plans "with such precision that only the architectural detail is left" to the land owners. Most planners believe property rights are "flexible," and that no property owner should be able to do anything with his or her land without government approval.

While conservatives hunted for communists in the State Department, planners gathered enormous power over our lives down at city hall. Despite their scientific pretensions, planners really have no idea how a city or any other economy works. So they rely on fads to tell them how to run our lives. In the 1950s and 1960s, the fad was urban renewal. Today, it is smart growth.

Oregon: Planning's victim Smart growth says Americans drive too much, and the large lots on which they live waste too much land. To solve these supposed problems, planners promote all sorts of regulations aimed at reducing driving and forcing people to live on less land.

The smart-growth fad is furthest advanced in Oregon, where planners have passed an unbelievable set of regulations for land use and transportation. Here are just a few of them.
Planners have drawn urban-growth boundaries around all of Oregon's cities and towns. These growth boundaries contain just 1.25 percent of all the land in Oregon, yet planners hope to eventually force 90 percent of Oregon residents to live within them. Only actual farmers should be allowed to live outside the boundaries, say planners, so the state planning agency passed a rule allowing people to build homes on farm land only if they actually earn $80,000 a year farming it.

Inside the boundaries, planners regulate everything from parking on the streets to the use of church buildings. One Portland church with 400 seats in its sanctuary was told that it could allow no more than 70 people to worship in the church at one time. A growing church in southern Oregon was told it could not expand unless it remained closed on Saturdays and held no more than five weddings or funerals a year.

Religious regulation is an outrageous but minor component of Oregon's land-use planning. More important is minimum-density zoning, which requires that all development be to at least a given number of houses per acre. To fit a growing population within the urban-growth boundaries, planners are rezoning existing neighborhoods to higher densities. Some neighborhoods of single-family homes have been rezoned to multi-family densities.
If you own a quarter-acre lot in such a neighborhood, you would not be allowed to build a single house on it--even if many other homes in the neighborhood are on quarter-acre lots. Instead, if the area is zoned to 24 units per acre, you will be required to build a six-unit apartment. Owners of large yards are encouraged to build apartments in their backyards. If your house burns down, you will be required to replace it with an apartment.
Planners also want to control the design of people's homes. They derisively called houses with garages in front "snout houses," and say that people who own such houses drive too much. So Portland has passed an ordinance requiring that garages be recessed behind the front of new homes.

To further discourage driving, planners are deliberately not building new highways. Their goal is to increase congestion to stop-and-go levels during much of the day, so people will walk or ride public transit instead of drive. Planners are also building concrete barriers and speed bumps on existing roads in order to slow traffic and reduce traffic flows. They call this traffic calming, though the people who must drive on such roads feel anything but calm.

Be careful what you ask for Smart growth turns out to accomplish the exact opposite of almost everything it promises. It makes cities more congested. Because cars pollute more in stop-and-go traffic, it increases air pollution. Artificial land shortages lead to unaffordable housing. Open spaces are rapidly filled with high-density housing.
Portland planners even admit their goal is to "replicate" Los Angeles--the nation's most congested, polluted, and one of its least-affordable cities--in Portland. They have come close to achieving this goal. In the last 18 years, congestion in the Portland-area has grown faster than in any other U.S. urban area, while the city has gone from being one of the 50 most affordable to one of the 10 least affordable markets for single-family housing in the nation.
A decade ago, smart-growth ideas were peculiar to Oregon. But now they are rapidly taking over the country. Government officials in such diverse states as Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin have strongly endorsed smart growth. President George W. Bush's new director of the Environmental Protection Agency and secretaries of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development have all promised to maintain federal smart-growth policies launched during the Clinton administration.
In retrospect, it is likely that planners in our city governments will do far more harm to our personal and economic freedoms than communists in the State Department. The solution is simple: Fire all the planners. Achieving that solution, however, will require a concerted effort by conservatives, libertarians, and everyone else who cares about urban livability, mobility, and freedom.

Randal O'Toole is senior economist with the Thoreau Institute and author of the recent book, The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths.

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs (July/August 1995)

 THAT quotation and the following - and many others like them - clearly demonstrate that the words "new woorld order" are deadly serious and furthermore, have been in use for decades. They did not originate with President George Bush in 1990. The "old world order" is one based on independent nation-states. The "new world order" involves the elimination of the sovereignty and independence of nation-states and some form of world government. This means the end of the United States of America, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights as we now know them. Most of the new world order proposals involve the conversion of the United Nations and its agencies to a world government, complete with a world army, a world parliament, a world court, global taxation, and numerous other agencies to control every aspect of human life (education, nutrition, health care, population, immigration, communications, transportation, commerce, agriculture, finance, the environment, etc.). The various notions of the "new world order" differ as to details and scale, but agree on the basic principle and substance.

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"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an "extraterrestrial" invasion], whether real or *promulgated* [emphasis mine], that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this *scenario*, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent." Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.

"The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called
 ideologies [marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them [the Illuminati] to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other." Myron Fagan

"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation." David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations

"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most  influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press....They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers.

"An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers." U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917

"The world can therefore seize the opportunity [Persian Gulf crisis] to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind." George Herbert Walker Bush

"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.

"We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent." Statement by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member James Warburg to The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, l950

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." Benjamin Disraeli, first Prime Minister of England, in a novel he published in 1844 called Coningsby, the New Generation

"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. " British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913)

"What is important is to dwell upon the increasing evidence of the existence of a secret conspiracy, throughout the world, for the destruction of organized government and the letting loose of evil." Christian Science Monitor editorial, June 19th, l920

"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties." New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922

"From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."  Winston Churchill, stated to the London Press, in l922.

"We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world." Professor Arnold Toynbee, in a June l931 speech before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen.

"The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power
 which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I." British military historian Major General J.F.C. Fuller, l941

"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this
 country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were
 carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.

"The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

"The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank." Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father-in-Law

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." A letter written by FDR to Colonel House, November 21st, l933

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes." Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952

"Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure." Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times.

 "Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite." Senator William Jenner, 1954

 "The case for government by elites is irrefutable." Senator William Fulbright, Former chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stated at a 1963 symposium entitled: The Elite and the Electorate - Is Government by the People Possible?

 "The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nationstates involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future." U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his l964 book: With No Apologies.

 "The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups." Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time (Macmillan Company, 1966,) Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University, highly esteemed by his former student, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.

"The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also
 announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world
dictatorship." Former Congressman John Rarick 1971

"The directors of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) make up a sort of Presidium for that part of the
 Establishment that guides our destiny as a nation." The Christian Science Monitor, September 1, l961

"The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down...but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault." CFR member Richard Gardner, writing in the April l974 issue of the CFR's journal, Foreign Affairs.

"The planning of UN can be traced to the 'secret steering committee' established by Secretary [of State Cordell] Hull in January 1943. All of the members of this secret committee, with the exception of Hull, a Tennessee politician, were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. They saw Hull regularly to plan, select, and guide the labors of the [State] Department's Advisory Committee. It was, in effect, the coordinating agency for all the State Department's postwar planning." Professors Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, writing in their study of the CFR, "Imperial Brain Trust: The CFR and United States Foreign Policy." (Monthly Review Press, 1977).

"The most powerful clique in these (CFR) groups have one objective in common: they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S. They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people. The CFR was founded for "the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government." Harpers, July l958

"The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow." Nicholas Murray Butler, in an address delivered before the Union League of Philadelphia, Nov. 27, 1915

"The peace conference has assembled. It will make the most momentous decisions in history, and upon these decisions will rest the stability of the new world order and the future peace of the world." M. C. Alexander, Executive Secretary of the American Association for International Conciliation, in a subscription letter for the periodical International Conciliation (1919)

"If there are those who think we are to jump immediately into a new world order, actuated by complete
 understanding and brotherly love, they are doomed to disappointment. If we are ever to approach that time, it will be after patient and persistent effort of long duration. The present international situation of mistrust and fear can only be corrected by a formula of equal status, continuously applied, to every phase of international contacts, until the cobwebs of the old order are brushed out of the minds of the people of all lands." Dr. Augustus O. Thomas, president of the World Federation of Education Associations (August 1927), quoted in the book International Understanding: Agencies Educating for a New World (1931)

"... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people." H. G. Wells, in his book entitled The New World Order (1939)

"The term Internationalism has been popularized in recent years to cover an interlocking financial, political, and economic world force for the purpose of establishing a World Government. Today Internationalism is heralded from pulpit and platform as a 'League of Nations' or a 'Federated Union' to which the United States must surrender a definite part of its National Sovereignty. The World Government plan is being advocated under such alluring names as the 'New International Order,' 'The New World Order,' 'World Union Now,' 'World Commonwealth of Nations,' 'World Community,' etc. All the terms have the same objective; however, the line of approach may be religious or political according to the taste or training of the individual." Excerpt from A Memorial to be Addressed to the House of Bishops and the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in General Convention (October 1940)

"In the first public declaration on the Jewish question since the outbreak of the war, Arthur Greenwood, member without portfolio in the British War Cabinet, assured the Jews of the United States that when victory was achieved an effort would be made to found a new world order based on the ideals of 'justice and peace.'" Excerpt from article entitled "New World Order Pledged to Jews," in The New York Times (October 1940)

"If totalitarianism wins this conflict, the world will be ruled by tyrants, and individuals will be slaves. If democracy wins, the nations of the earth will be united in a commonwealth of free peoples, and individuals, wherever found, will be the sovereign units of the new world order." The Declaration of the Federation of the World, produced by the Congress on World Federation, adopted by the Legislatures of North Carolina (1941), New Jersey (1942), Pennsylvania (1943), and possibly other states.

"New World Order Needed for Peace: State Sovereignty Must Go, Declares Notre Dame Professor"
 Title of article in The Tablet (Brooklyn) (March 1942)

"Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles tonight called for the early creation of an international organization of anti-Axis nations to control the world during the period between the armistice at the end of the present war and the setting up of a new world order on a permanent basis." Text of article in The Philadelphia Inquirer (June 194

"The statement went on to say that the spiritual teachings of religion must become the foundation for the new world order and that national sovereignty must be subordinate to the higher moral law of God." American Institute of Judaism, excerpt from article in The New York Times (December 1942)

"There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper." Norman Thomas, in his book What Is Our Destiny? (1944)

"He [John Foster Dulles] stated directly to me that he had every reason to believe that the Governor [Thomas E. Dewey of New York] accepts his point of view and that he is personally convinced that this is the policy that he would promote with great vigor if elected. So it is fair to say that on the first round the Sphinx of Albany has established himself as a prima facie champion of a strong and definite new world order." Excerpt from article by Ralph W. Page in The Philadelphia Bulletin (May 1944)

 "Alchemy for a New World Order" Article by Stephen John Stedman in Foreign Affairs (May/June 1995)

"The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able--nor can it be able--to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'" Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, in an article entitled "Rockefeller Bids Free Lands Unite: Calls at Harvard for Drive to Build New World Order" -- The New York Times (February 1962)

"The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a new world order." Richard Nixon, in Foreign Affairs (October 1967)

"He [President Nixon] spoke of the talks as a beginning, saying nothing more about the prospects for future contacts and merely reiterating the belief he brought to China that both nations share an interest in peace and building 'a new world order.'" Excerpt from an article in The New York Times (February 1972)

"If instant world government, Charter review, and a greatly strengthened International Court do not provide the answers, what hope for progress is there? The answer will not satisfy those who seek simple solutions to complex problems, but it comes down essentially to this: The hope for the foreseeable lies, not in building up a few ambitious central institutions of universal membership and general jurisdiction as was envisaged at the end of the last war, but rather in the much more decentralized, disorderly and pragmatic process of inventing or adapting institutions of limited jurisdiction and selected membership to deal with specific problems on a case-by-case basis ... In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." Richard N. Gardner, in Foreign Affairs (April 1974)

 "The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping a new world order or is doomed to await collapse in a passive posture. We believe a new order will be born no later than early in the next century and that the death throes of the old and the birth pangs of the new will be a testing time for the human species." Richard A. Falk, in an article entitled "Toward a New World Order: Modest Methods and Drastic Visions," in the book On the Creation of a Just World Order (1975)

"My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order." Henry Kissinger, in address before the General Assembly of the United Nations, October 1975)

"At the old Inter-American Office in the Commerce Building here in Roosevelt's time, as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs under President Truman, as chief whip with Adlai Stevenson and Tom Finletter at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco, Nelson Rockefeller was in the forefront of the struggle to establish not only an American system of political and economic security but a new world order." Part of article in The New York Times (November 1975)

"A New World Order" Title of article on commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania by Hubert H. Humphrey, printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette (June 1977)

"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order." Mikhail Gorbachev, in an address at the United Nations (December 1988)

"We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms." Brent Scowcroft (August 1990), quoted in The Washington Post (May 1991)

"We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period." Richard Gephardt, in The Wall Street Journal (September 1990)

"If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we've all worked toward for so long." President George Bush (January 1991)

"But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council." Excerpt from A. M. Rosenthal, in The New York Times (January 1991)

"I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court." George McGovern, in The New York Times (February 199

"... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier." William Safire, in The New York Times (February 1991)

"How I Learned to Love the New World Order" Article by Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in The Wall Street Journal (April 1992)

"How to Achieve The New World Order" Title of book excerpt by Henry Kissinger, in Time magazine (March 1994)

"The Final Act of the Uruguay Round, marking the conclusion of the most ambitious trade negotiation of our century, will give birth - in Morocco - to the World Trade Organization, the thirdd pillar of the New World Order, along with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund." Part of full-page advertisement by the government of Morocco in The New York Times (April 1994)

"New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State" Title of article by Kenichi Ohmae, political reform leader in Japan, in The Wall Street Journal (August 1994)

"The new world order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and
 prosperity for all." Nelson Mandela, in The Philadelphia Inquirer (October 1994)

"The renewal of the nonproliferation treaty was described as important "for the welfare of the whole world and the new world order." President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, in The New York Times (April 1995)

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 One World Order supporters....

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery." Thomas Jefferson

"...This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of "one world government'....National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept..." Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter.
 

"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance." President George Bush addressing the General Assembly of the U.N., February 1,1992.

"...This program is the fixed, determined and approved policy of the government of the United States." Senator Joseph S. Clark speaking on the floor of the Senate, March 1, 1962, about PL 87-297 which calls for the disbanding of all armed forces and the prohibition of their re-establishment in any form whatsoever.

"Let me control a peoples currency and I care not who makes their laws..." Meyer Nathaniel Rothchild in a speech to a gathering of world bankers February 12, 1912.The following year, we subscribed to the "services" of the newly incorporated Federal Reserve, headed by Mr. Rothchild.

"By the end of this decade (2000 AD) we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations ... a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of human survival. One world government is inevitable." Pope John Paul II quoted by Malachi Martin in the book "The Keys of This Blood"

"The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and Communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order." Former West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, former chairman of the Fifth-Socialist International, who chaired the Brandt Commission in the late 1980s.

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." David Rockefeller

"But this present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for long. Already there are powerful forces at work that threaten to destroy all of our hopes and efforts to erect an enduring structure of global interdependence." David Rockefeller, speaking at the Business Council for the United Nations, September 14, 1994.

"A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order." Brent Scowcroft, George Bush's National Security Advisor, said on the eve of the Gulf War.

"The Persian Gulf crisis is a rare opportunity to forge new bonds with old enemies (the Soviet Union)...Out of these troubled times a New World Order can emerge under a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders." President George Bush, September 11, 1990.

"The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind." President George Bush in his State of the Union Address, January 29, 1991.

"NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order." Henry Kissinger when campaigning for the passage of NAFTA.

"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order." Mikhail Gorbachev, in an address at the United Nations, December 1988.

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in "Foreign Affairs," July/August 1995.

"...In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." Richard N. Gardner, in "Foreign Affairs," April 1974.

"... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people - will hate the new world order - and will ddie protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people." H. G. Wells, in his book entitled "The New World Order" (1939).

"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed." Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control, to Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, The National Educator, January 1994, Page 3.

"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans... and so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities." President Bill Clinton, 3-22-94, MTV's "Enough is Enough"

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..." Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)

"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history." David Rockefeller, statement in 1973 about Mao Tse-tung: (NY Times 8-10-73)

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for
independence." Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)

"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in thirty or forty years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The Western world will need to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There shall be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate to their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist." Dmitrii Z. Manuilskii (Lenin School of Political Warfare, Moscow, 1931)

"There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun....And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." Michael Gartner, 1992 in USA Today

"The second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed." H. J. Res. 438Introduced by Rep. Major Owens, 1992

Vice President Al Gore as he traveled to Marrakech, Morocco, in April for the signing of the new world trade agreement. Gore appeared hours after U.S. planes enforcing an allied 'no fly' zone over northern Iraq accidentally shot down two U.S. helicopters, killing 15 Americans and 11 foreign officials. 'I want to extend condolences,' Gore said, 'to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations.'" (Los Angeles Times, 6/12/94)

"There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine . . . been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what, a 100,000 years, maybe 200,000. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4 1/2 billion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet isn't going away. We are." George Carlin

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken

"Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. .
Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders." Ralph Nader

Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995

"Protecting the Environment' is a ruse. The goal is the political and economic subjugation of most men by the few, under the guise of preserving nature." J. H. Robbins

"...the only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don't suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them." Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

"The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite." M. N. Rothbard

Global Sustainability requires: "the deliberate quest of poverty . . . reduced resource consumption . . . and set levels of mortality control." Professor Maurice King

"Allowing the EPA to condone continued use of a chemical whenever the benefits outweighs the risks is absolutely anathema to the environmental community." Janet Hathaway, Natural Resources Defense Council

The Environmentalist's Dream is an Egalitarian Society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller
 population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally. Aaron Wildavsky

"A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect." Richard Benedict, State Dept. employee working on assignment from the Conservation Foundation

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy . . . would be the equivalent o f giving an idiot child a machine gun." Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

"The secret to David McTaggart's (early officer in Greanpeace) success is the secret to Greenpeace's success: It doesn't matter what is true . . . . it only matters what people believe is true . . . . You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth, and a myth-generating machine." Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace

". . . a year is about one-fifth of the time we have left if we are going to preserve any kind of quality in our
 world." Garrett de Bell (1970)

"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency." Pope John Paul I

"The move toward controlling less and less pollution at greater and greater expense -- until you are spending everything to control nothing -- is one of the big water quality problems we are facing in the future." Ernest Rosenberg

"Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover the source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it." Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

". . . the Planning Commission must say 'no' to development . . . Austin, Texas, is showing us about land use . . . . " Judge Armstrong, Kentucky County

"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost." M. N. Rothbard

"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

"We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing -- in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)

"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects . . . We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land." David Foreman, Earth First!

". . . There is no such thing in America as an independent press . . . We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes . . . Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." John Swinton, former New York Times Chief of Staff

"We have the opportunity to avoid choices like nuclear power which will come back to haunt us 30 years from now." Russell Peterson, National Audobon Society President

". . . The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans." Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project

"One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death." Psychologist Barbara Marx Hubbard - member and futurist/strategist of Task Force Delta; a United States Army think tank. The Population Control Agenda.The Timeline

". . . as radical environmentalists, we can see AIDS not as a problem, but as a necessary solution." Miss Ann Thropy (pseudonym), Earth First! Journal

"The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing . . . This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run." Economist editorial

"I suspect that the politicians and businessmen who are jumping on the environment bandwagon don't have the slightest idea of what they are getting into. They are talking about emission control devices on automobiles, while we are talking about bans on automobiles." Dennis Hayes, Earth Day Agenda (1970)

"The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as
 opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security." Pranab Mukherjee, India's Minister of Commerce, Earth Times, 15 October 1994

"It's (the prospect of cheap fusion energy) the worst thing that could happen to the planet." Jeremy Rifkin

"No case for expensive policies for safeguarding species can be made without more extensive analysis."
 Endangered Species Blueprint, National Wilderness Institute

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety --- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken

"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

"They want timid, helpless people who are anxious to get in touch with their inner child, enter twelve-step
 programs, and run to the government with every little problem." Clark Stooksbury

". . . Our production and consumption is not sustainable . . . Agenda 21 is to be implemented . . . The Texas Sustainable Energy Development Council will develop the Texas Plan . . . The money will come from milking the utilities and redirecting oil overcharge funds . . . . " Commissioner Karl Rabago, Texas Public Utilities Commission

"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro

"Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing 'the new elite' at the top of a new hierachy of power." M. N. Rothbard

"Pure guesswork has become the basis of a forecast that has been published in newspapers to be read and
 understood as a scientific statement." Endangered Species Blueprint, National Wilderness Institute

"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition." Peter Singer, the "Father of Animal Rights"

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Presidential Candidate

"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day." Dr. Jacques Cousteau

"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems." John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

"Measured on virtually any scale, the world is in worse shape than it was 20 years ago." Dennis Hayes, Chairman of Earth Day 1990

"The world has cancer, and the cancer is man." A. Gregg, Mankind at the Turning Point

"People are the cause of all the problems; we have too many of them; we need to get rid of some of them, and this (ban of DDT) is as good a way as any." Charles Wurster, Environmental Defense Fund

"This is a political game. It has nothing to do with science. It has nothing to do with health and safety." Sherry Neddick, Greenpeace

"Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process . . . Capitalism is destroying the earth." Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

"The system of private property is the most important guaranty to freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because of the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that no one has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what we do for ourselves." Friedrich A. Hayck

"The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights . . ." Ayn Rand

"We reject the idea of private property." Peter Berle, President of the National Audobon Society

"Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion." Murray Rothbard

"No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people." Lysander Spooner

"The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf." Thomas Sowell

"The three branches of government . . . are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is
 something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks." P. J. O'Rourke

 27 August 1999
 Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise
 College of Engineering at UT Austin
 Send comments to: cofe@www.utexas.edu

Felder The Omega Agency is the one running the show.  They run the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, control the Bilderburgers, the whole ball of wax.  They are who people are talking about when one says orders come from "above the President".

The Omega Agency consists of a network set up much like the CIA.  There are thousands world-wide who take their orders directly from the ruling council of the Omega Agency.  This council consists of 10 to 12 people.  George Bush and Alexander C.  Haig are the only two names that I know at this point who sit on the council of the Omega Agency.  The OA is the driving force behind what is commonly called the "New World Order." The OA's office is located at Langley AFB.

The OA originally planned to establish their world-wide control in 1995.  But it was deemed that the time was not right, so they set a new target date for sometime in the year 2000.  They are, above all else, a patient lot.  Their plans to bring the world under one governing body, namely themselves, have been long in the making and thoroughly thought out.
They plan to establish their NWO, for lack of a better term, in a time span of no less than
5 days.  And they intend to do it without open war.  How exactly this will be accomplished, I don't know yet.

Recall when President Reagan was shot.  Haig made the statements to the press that "I'm in charge now." If you'll remember, he caught a lot of flack for that, and shortly thereafter, he was accused of various things that ruined his name politically.  This was done by members of Congress who were aware of his seat on the Omega Agency council, and they feared losing their claim to power.  Haig jumped the gun in his statements, and ended up giving up his political position because of it.  Had Reagan died, we would have had Bush as President, and Haig as Secretary of State.  Two men in power who sit on the OA council.  But because of the stink raised by a few members of Congress, Haig faded into the background rather than risk exposure of his connection to the OA, or of the OA itself.

Recall when the Gulf War started.  Bush used the exact words "New World Order" in his speech to the country.  He said it several times, that the Gulf War marked the beginning of a NWO.  The Gulf War was not a war about oil or the freedom of the people of Kuwait.  It was a test of how well multi-national troops under the guidance of the UN would react in a war situation.  The same holds true for Somalia and Bosnia.  Multi-national troops under the direction of the UN.  The Omega Agency controls the UN.

Bush didn't lose the election to Clinton.  Bush needed to be out of the limelight of the presidency in order to concentrate on and escalate the plans of the Omega Agency.  And in Clinton, they had a stooge who would not rock the boat and who would do what he was told.  Notice how quick Clinton has been to commit US troops to UN peace-keeping forces here and there.  Notice who Clinton appointed as Secretary of State
- Madeline Albright, the UN lady.  Notice who Clinton gave federal land to - the UN.

Why the need for a one-world government?  The reasoning of the Omega Agency is this:
Simply put, the bullshit has got to stop.  Crime is out of control on a world-wide basis, especially in the US.  People are out of control, not taking responsibility for themselves or their actions.  Population growth is out of control on a world-wide level.  The judicial system of the US is a joke.  The political system of the US and most countries world-wide is a joke, corrupted and polluted by greed and power-hungry people who don't care about the population they were elected or appointed to serve.  Under the governing body the Omega Agency plans to put in power, this would end.  End of trial by jury.  End of living off of society and not contributing your fair share.  End of taking advantage of others for one's own personal gain.
All who are able would contribute to the growth and well-being of the world's society, or they would pay the price for not pulling their fair share.

What is this price?  Basically, it will be like this: Those who are able physically and mentally to work will do so.  If you have a job/profession at the time that the OA takes over, you will continue in that job/profession.  If you are drawing welfare, but are physically able to work, you will work.  Personal freedoms to come and go as one pleases world-wide will not change.  Basically, the OA doesn't care what people do to amuse themselves, entertain themselves, etc., as long as they are working and contributing to the society as a whole.  But there will be zero tolerance of any act that hurts/harms another.  Crimes against another or against society will be met with the death penalty, if such crime is of a severe nature such as murder/rape/robbery.  What is now considered a felony crime will be punishable by death.
What is now considered a misdemeanor crime will be punishable by imprisonment on a work farm for a number of years equal to what the OA considers suitable payback for said crime against society.
These work farms will be in the business of growing food, manufacture of clothing, textiles, etc.  People sent to these farms will work for the specified time, or will be eliminated.

There will be zero tolerance for any crime that hurts/harms/infringes on the life of others.
Example - a person making threatening phone calls to another will be picked up and sent to one of the work farms.  A person committing a drive-by shooting will be punished with immediate death.  The policing of the populous will be carried out by men/women who are already chosen and merely waiting for the time when they will go to work for the OA openly.  Most are current and/or former military people who worked special ops while on active duty.  These people will be responsible for seeking out those guilty of a crime.  Once the person is located, they will inform that person that they are guilty of said crime and immediately put a bullet in their head.  End of crime problem from that person.
Should the person's crime not warrant the death penalty, these Public Security Officers will pick up the person and deliver them to the work farm.
If the person resists, they will be shot on the spot.  No trial, no jury, no lawyer, no Miranda rights.  The Public Security Officer will have the authority to act as sole judge, jury, and executioner of the punishment that the OA declares fits the crime.

Population control will be accomplished by mandatory birth control by all people, men as well as women.  Abortion will be freely available.  There will be zero tolerance for child-bearing out of wedlock.  The institute of marriage is looked upon with favor by the OA.  There will be a limit of 2 children per couple allowed.  Should one become pregnant after the 2-child limit has been reached, and despite the use of birth control, then the options will be either to have an abortion or to increase one's work load to compensate society for the burden of the extra child.  Birth control and abortion will be completely acceptable in the eyes of the various religions world-wide.  It will, in fact, be encouraged and mandatory under some religious doctrines.  Recall VP Gore's meeting behind closed doors with religious leaders and NASA officials at the beginning of 1997.

But bringing people under control is not the only reason driving the OA There is another.
The other reason is the extraterrestrials.  They are here on this planet, living and working with the OA.  Exactly which race this is, I'm not sure at this time.  I highly suspect it is not the greys that are so well known.  These ET's are helping the US with its space program and are working toward devising a plan to restore the planet's environment after the OA takes over.  Their main reason for being here is to help the OA put a stop to the violent, out-of-control nature of the human race in general.  Why?  Because they fear us.  They realized when we accomplished the first manned space flight that it was only a matter of time before we moved out into the universe.  And they don't want our ways to infest their society.  They are helping the OA for reasons of self-preservation of their society.  They realized that we are the most violent race in the universe that is on the verge of space travel.  And they don't want us spreading our warlike, violent, greedy ways to other parts of the universe and disrupting the order of their societies on other planets.
They agreed to help the OA in the advancement of our technology and in the repairing of the damage we've done to the Earth's environment in exchange for the OA's cooperation in changing the ways of this world, bringing us humans into line with the societies of the other planets in the ET's sphere of control in the universe.

The OA has not taken control yet because there are forces within the existing governments of the world that are aware of their plans and oppose them.  In the US, these forces are largely centered in the CIA and NSA.  The CIA wants world control, but on its terms.  The CIA wants to see a more communistic-type government set up on a world-wide basis.  While the OA professes to believe in the maintaining of personal freedoms so long as one is a contributing member of society and not infringing on the lives of others, the CIA would rather see a world where all people are controlled in all ways, from what type of job one does to how one worships.  It is the CIA/NSA/Air Force that is maintaining secrecy where the ET presence is concerned, not the OA.  The Omega Agency, once it comes into power, plans to reveal everything to the people of the world.  From the running of drugs to finance the Viet Nam war to the presence of ET's on this world for the last 50 years or more.  George Bush himself is said to have made the statement that he will personally tell of his involvement in the running of drugs to finance the Nam war while he was CIA director.  To the OA way of thinking, the ends really do justify the means, and in the case of the Nam war, the running of drugs was necessary to finance the operation in that country.  Therefore, it was a justified endeavor.  Not one to be proud of, but justified nonetheless.

The CIA/NSA/OA all monitor the internet closely.  Especially IRC.  The Net is described as the most dangerous tool in the world at this point in time because it is uncontrolled.  Those who talk about these types of things or carry information about these things on their web sites are closely monitored.  In "government talk", orders to "watch"
someone translates into instructions to keep track of them by whatever means necessary, and if they cross the line, if they stumble upon the truth of the matter and don't keep their mouth shut, "take them out".  This can be done in any way that works without drawing too much suspicion.  Such as brakes on the car failing, a random victim in a drive-by shooting, a random target in a store robbery where that person just happens to be shopping at the time, etc.  The determination as to whether a person needs to be "taken out" is left up to the discretion of the one doing the watching.
It is, in effect, an open license to kill to protect the Omega Agency from public exposure before it has deemed the time is right for it to take control of the planet.  In some cases, it is determined that the person in question would pose more of a threat if they died.  In such a case, the machinery of the OA goes into action to discredit that person.  Character assassination, manipulation of others so as to turn people against the person, campaigns to brand them a disinformation agent, a liar, a mentally unstable person, etc., are put into motion.  This has been found to be an effective method of dealing with someone who gets to the truth and doesn't keep silent.
In fact, it has been found to not only discredit the target victim but to cast a shadow of doubt and suspicion on others who may have listened to the targeted person.

This plan for the establishment of a one-world governing body, namely what is now known as the Omega Agency, has been in the works for a long time.  And it is said that it cannot be stopped.  In fact, the person who related this information to me is looking forward to it.  Those who oppose the establishment of the OA's NWO, and who cannot be brought into line through persuasion or manipulation will be eliminated as threats to society.  This person passionately believes that this plan is the solution to the world's problems.  This person is also awaiting the start of a new job - as a Public Security Officer.  This is a position this person was trained for and accepted before leaving active military service.

Among the invited guests to this State of the World Forum were former US President George Bush; former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia; former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone; Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa; media mogul Ted Turner (Second largest private landowner in the U.S. 1+ million acres. We all know how he loves to give to the U.N.); Microsoft Chairman William Gates; US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; and Alvin Toffler, author of futurist books like Future Shock and The Third Wave.

GLOBALISTS PROMOTE ‘EARTH CHARTER’
                                                                               March 15, 2000

By Mary Jo Anderson
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com

World leaders convened in San Francisco at the posh Fairmont hotel last week for the fifth annual State of the World Forum. The Forum is a project of the Gorbachev Foundation whose mission statement reads, “To serve as a non-partisan forum for addressing the central concerns facing humanity at the beginning of the new millennium.” The overarching theme of this year’s Forum was the establishment of a planetary government empowered to “enforce human rights.”

As the chic leftists, with their new age gurus in tow, feasted sumptuously on $100 per plate dinners their chatter decried the plight of the poor. Enforcing equitable distribution of the world’s resources demands global adoption of “sustainable development,” as part of the “environmental rights” of all men.

We might laugh it off as the final utopian scheme of the millennium were it not for the deadly serious intent of some very influential people. Past and present speakers at the Forum include: George Bush, Margaret Thatcher, James A. Baker, III, media mogul Ted Turner, Jean Houston, Desmond Tutu, futurist John Naisbitt, Carl Sagan, Jesse Jackson, Deepak Chopra, alternative medicine star, Andrew Weil, Queen Noor of Jordan, Earth Council president Maurice Strong, primatologist Jane Goodall and Yashuhiro Nakasone. These luminaries were joined by U.S. senators and business leaders (namely, David Rockefeller and Steve Kirsch, CEO of Infoseek), Nobel laureates,
spiritual gurus, indigenous peoples’ representatives and world-class scientists. World peace, nuclear disarmament, and ecology rounded out the six-day agenda, but the centerpiece was a call for a “new world spirit” which recognizes the “unity of the human family” and the necessity of a world federation to keep peace in the family.

The $5,000 registration fee and scant promotional information ensured that only leftist guests and liberal-pedigreed participants were in attendance.

A roundtable discussion, “The United Nations in Ten years; The United Nations in One Hundred Years,” admitted that the U.N. as it stood was only a foundation for the world federation which would require a voluntary army to “deter human rights abuses.” Moderated by Tad Daly, director of Global Security Programs for the State of the World Forum, the discussion featured senator Alan Cranston and Tom Spencer, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Security and Defense Policy Committee of the European Parliament. The two were joined by various academics and diplomats
who advocated abolishing the veto power of the U.N. Security Council—a dated mechanism favoring the winners of World War II—adopting instead a “Parliament of Humankind.” World peace was possible if a “planetary patriotism” for the “Federal Republic of Earth” supplanted nationalism. The U.N. must also restructure the General Assembly, instituting a weighted voting process in place of the one country, one vote system now employed. This proposal would
provide an equitable sharing of power among the more populous nations such as China and India.

Proponents of world government welcomed the advent of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the framework for “enforceable world law” which would have juridical power over individuals as well as nations. Despite Oxford and Harvard degrees, none had an answer for a journalist who inquired who would police the peacekeepers and the planetary judges.

The roundtable was studded with members of the World Federalist Association, an organization with “consultative” status at the United Nations. One late night “Socratic dialogue” explored “Worldviews by which we live” which served to deconstruct the Western Christian worldview in favor of a new hybrid which combines adulterated Hinduism, Buddhism and New Age silliness.

Discussion leaders included Daniel Sheehan the director of “New Paradigm Initiative” for the Stateof the World Forum, pantheist biologist Rupert Sheldrake, a Tibetan chant scholar and Jose Arguelles, the author of “The Mayan Factor and Earth Ascending.” The last evening’s Socratic dialogue addressed quantum physics and its theological implications. Led by “mystics” interpreting physics, including Jean Houston andMargot Anand (“Everyday Ecstasy”), the session was preceded by an “ohmmmmmn” meditative chant while Houston read in a hypnotic tone a “prayer” for world unity of consciousness. The transfer of what remains of the Christian foundation of Western Civilization to a pop amalgamation of “the best of the wisdom traditions “ was the goal of the dialogues. Little imagination is required to see how clever a scheme it is to make “world unity” a “spiritual imperative.”

Such global unity of mind, spirit and purpose forges a “cosmic consciousness” to be directed at the environment, at equitable distribution of planetary resources and at fostering voluntary sustainable development as defined by the one-worlders. One need but recall the distribution of environmental action kits to thousands of American churches and synagogues last year by the National Religious Partnership for the Environment to appreciate their victory. The
NRPE mission? “Our goal is to integrate commitment to global sustainability and environmental justice permanently into all aspects of religious life.”

The State of the World Forum, as the most visible arm of those shadowy hands on the levers of
world power, has devised a masterful non-violent approach to achieving global government: Seduce the churches into promoting planetary citizenship where national borders are obliterated in the name of “environmental justice,” a human right. Americans who still find wisdom in nationhood as mediator between the individual and a “One World Destiny” the world federalists have outlined cannot comfortably dismiss the Forum as a collection of talking heads. The State of the World Forum and the United Nations will convene a joint special assembly in September 2000.