Global Governance

Maurice Strong

Systems Thinking 

Bertrand Russell and UNESCO

Membership Lists

Alice Bailey

Communist Goals 1963

Robert Muller
Lucis Trust 
Education Reform for the New  World Order
International Baccalaureate and New Age Education

Executive Order 13107

VISION 2020

Non Governmental Agencies

One World Religion
A letter from the NWO
Private property vs. Sustainable Development

Organizations

Individuals

Publications

Club of Rome

Maurice Strong (frequent speaker at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Secretary General of the first Earth Summit in 1972, first Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Secretary General of Earth Summit II in Rio, 1992, founder of Earth Council, Chair of the Business Council for Sustainable Development, co-chair of the World Economic Forum, member of UN's Brundtland Commission on Environment and Development, member of Commission on Global Governance)

Rockefellers

Saburo Okita

"Limits to Growth" (1972) predicted the impending end of life as we know it due to population grown and depletion of resources; calls for international action of "unprecedented scale and scope".  "We believe in fact that the need will quickly become evident for social innovation to match technical change, for radical reform of the institutions and political process at all levels, including the highest, that of world polity.  And since intellectual enlightenment is without effect if it is not also political, THE CLUB OF ROME also will encourage the creation of a world forum where statesmen, policy-makers, and scientists can discuss the dangers and hopes for the future global system without the constraints of formal intergovernmental negotiation." En Route to Global Occupation Gary Kah

Carnegie Foundation

(National Center for Education and Economy--NCEE)

.

David Hornbeck

Marc Tucker

Hillary Clinton

Ira Magaziner

Human Capital "create a sense of crisis" and then "use courts" to achieve social goals

United Nations

Maurice Strong (Canadian, Under-secretary of UN)

Shridath Ramphal of Guyana (secretary general of the Commonwealth of Nations, comprised mainly of developing nations)

Brian Urquhart, scholar in residence for the Ford Foundation--once under secretary to the U.N.

Our Common Future: The Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development , also called the Brundtland report

Our Global Neighborhood; The Report of the Commission on Global Governance

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

Treaty contains principles of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) --created a UN taxing authority  (a legal mechanism for the redistribution of wealth from developed to developing nations.  No seabed activity, mining, salvaging, and so forth, can occur without a permit from the ISA). President Clinton signed into law in 1994

CARING COMMUNITIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY:
Villages and Cities for All Generations
"Towards a Community for All"
In support of the International Year of Older Persons 1999
February 10 - 11, 1999
United Nations Headquarters - New York City
Conference Background:
As part of a five-year series of interlinked congresses held in cities around
the globe, this conference is organized in coordination with the United
Nations
Secretariat of the International Year of Older Persons and United Nations
Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT), NGOs and the private sector. It
will be
held in the United Nations during the Commission for Social Development in
Conference Room #4. The Conference will address the following issues:   
·       What will be the impact of longevity on communities? 
·       What will the impact of multigenerational communities be on
longevity? 
·       Will multigenerational communities help people to live longer and more
successful lives? 
·       How can communities prepare for changing new roles?  
·       What partnerships can be established between society, government, and
business? 
·       How can older persons contribute to, and care for, their
communities? 
Each month the world’s older population increases by 1.2 million! By 2020, 1.4
billion persons will be over 60, an increase of 240% since 1980 with the
fastest growth in developing countries. By 2025, worldwide life expectancy
will
reach 73 years…a 50% improvement on the 1955 average of only 48 years…a
quality
of life challenge!
Conference highlights will include: an international exhibition and
presentation of architectural and interior design student projects,
"Integrated
Communities: A Society for All Ages;" Public/Private Partnership Luncheon and
Networking Reception, featuring the ICCC awards to eminent world leaders.
Join experts from the fields of architecture, advertising, design, community
planning, health, government, real estate development, and technology to
discuss your ideas. The roster of prominent speakers includes:
Ambassador Julia Alvarez, Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to
the UN
Ambassador Bagher Asadi, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to
the UN*
Ambassador Carlos Dos Santos, Permanent Mission of Mozambique to the UN
Minister Motohide Yoshikawa, Minister, Permanent Mission of Japan to the UN*
United Nations:
H.E. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General*
Dr. Nitin Desai, Under Secretary-General, Department of Economic and Social
Affairs*
Dr. Klaus Toepfer, Ag. Executive Director, UN Centre for Human
Settlements(HABITAT)*
Dr. Alexandre Sidorenko, Coordinator, Secretariat for the International
Year of
Older Persons
Local Authorities, Non-Governmental Organizations, Foundations and Business:
H.E. Qassim Sultan, Director General, Dubai Municipality, United Arab
Emirates
Mr. Sylvan Barnet,, Rotary International Alternate Representative to the UN
Dr. Rod Hackney, RIBA, Former President of the International Union of
Architects

Mr. James B. Kennedy, Executive Director, Casino Reinvestment Development
Authority,
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Mr. Stephen King, Executive Director, International Council on Social Welfare
Mr. George Soros, Chairman, Soros Foundation* (MAJOR DONOR OF HILLARY CLINTON)

Convention on the Rights of Child

adopted by the UN General Assembly Nov. 20, 1989

Communist Party platform under Lenin called for "establishment of nurseries for infants and children in all shops, factories and other enterprises that employ women"

Article 12.1 Grants children the right to express their own views freely in all matters

Article 13.1 Grants children the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds

Article 14:1 Grants children the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion

Article 15:1 Grants children the right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly

16:1 Grants children the right to privacy in the family, home, or correspondence

strips authority for child-rearing from parents and gives it to the government

October 2, 1994 column by Arnold Beichman, Washington Times: "Weeds In the Child's Garden of Rights."  "From Canada a warning voice is heard against ratification of a UN covenant which could 'advance a radical agenda' focused on parental authority and the normal historic family of Western society."

"In November 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted a convention, the language of which was replete with the kind of pieties so useful to avant-garde social engineers who want a new world order reflecting their weltanschauung.  The UN declaration stressed the rights of children to be raised 'in a spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and
solidarity.'  Who could argue against so majestic a declaration, so luscious a sugar-coated package?  But the devil is in the details, the subsidiary clauses, the bureaucratic guidelines --and that is the alarm which the Canadian magazine, 'Western Report,' published in Vancouver, was sounding."

[Remember that the Clintons have vowed to get this 'convention' implemented in the U.S. by hook or by crook--by legislation or Executive Order or by step-by-step agency regulations...??]

In 1990 there was the UN World Summit for Children.  "The 'Summit' attended by representatives from 71 states [remember the UN refers to countries as "states"], promulgated a world declaration comprising 54 articles calling upon governments everywhere to place the rights of children high on the national agenda.   Without a word to the Canadian House of Commons or the people of Canada, Prime Minister Mulroney signed the UN pronouncement and created a Children's Bureau, a new billion-dollar bureaucracy to administer his unilateral commitment." [Deja vu, Red, White and Blue copycat, 1999??]

"As is usual in radical blueprints for remaking the world, many of the declaration's provisions are unexceptional ... Taken out of context, warns the 'Western Report' writer, Celeste McGovern, 'the document's ambiguous phrasing raises some red flags.'"

[Note how it is phrased: 'As is usual in radical blueprints for remaking the world.'   People tend to focus on the "who could object to this" type of content and miss the "red flags." ]

Warnings of Canadian grassroots groups (1994) included warnings that the proposed treaty "ignores the rights of parents...if these functions are not clearly given to parents and the family, the powerful state agencies will assume them."  It goes on to cite Article 13, which gives children the "right to freedom of expression...the right to seek, receive, and impart information of all kinds...in the form of art or through any other media of the child's choice." [1999, note the most recent pronouncements of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Library Association asserting the rights of children to delve into pornography, etc., and to participate in acts by pedophiles if they do so "consensually."]

Article 20 "gives the State the right to remove children from their homes 'for their best interests when necessary.'  That's the kind of bureaucratese which makes civil servants purr with joy since they will define the child's 'best interests' and they will define when it is 'necessary' to remove the child from a family."

Mr. Mulroney's Children's Bureau spawned a second bureaucracy, "Brighter Futures Campaign." [1999: Think about all the emerging groups in the U.S. to bring about success, etc., for our children...]  The Canadian Children's Bureau promoted good-sounding things like research into childhood asthma and cancer [Notice all the ads here for helping asthmatic children all
springing forth in 1999?] and also started a LOBBYING EFFORT TO OUTLAW SPANKING EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A DISTINCT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SPANKING AND CHILD ABUSE. [Emphasis capital letters added here.]

1994 column continues: "Statistics Canada, an official govt. agency, is seeking 'to develop a new definition of family because it believes the traditional family is beyond recovery,' yet researchers have found that more than 80% of Canadians live in 2-parent, heterosexual families."
"Statscan is seeking a broader definition of family which would include 'gay and lesbian families,' and 'an increase in awareness of the homosexual presence.'"

1999:  Read the headlines; read the school programs being forced in; read the news features lauding gay/lesbian activities, gay/lesbian parents; notice the story lines of movies and books. Note the "need" for govt. and business day-care centers because single mothers have nowhere to leave their children while they work; note the "need" for schools to be
"families" in today's changed "family structures."  1999 dots had a lot preceding them. But, "it's for the children" so it's
all "needed." Who could object to wanting children to live in a "safe environment" and have "freedom"? Not mentioned in the Beichman column were the UN Rights of the Child provisions such as being free to choose their own religion OR not to have a religion; freedom to choose their own associates [...don't tell me I can't be in the Trenchcoat Mafia???]; the right to an education [where and for how long??] Lots in the details.  Lots already been eased in every so carefully in the five years since Mr. Beichman warned that the "radical agenda of the anti-family bureaucracy and its supportive lobby groups" were working to "change forever the quality of family life in Canada."  [AND EVERYWHERE ELSE, INCLUDING THE U.S.]

Thanks to Joan

Stockholm Initiative

Willie Brandt

Madam Brundtland

Butros Butros-Ghali

President Carter

Ingvar Carlsson, Prime Minister of Sweden

Shridath Ramphal

Jan Pronk

Saburo Okita

Maurice Strong

Meeting called mainly by the group listed which endorsed calling for a Commission on Global Governance.

Socialist International

Federal Republic of Germany's former chancellor Willy Brandt

Madame Gro Harlan Brundtland (Prime Minister of Norway)

North-South: A Program for Survival (1980) dealt with distribution of wealth and political power

Stockholm Initiative: a call for the commission on Global Governance

Commission on Global Governance

Shridath Ramphal of Guyana

Adele Simmons, president of the MacArthur Foundation--U.N. appointee to the High-Level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development

Brian Urquhart, scholar in residence for the Ford Foundation

Abdlatif Al-Hamad, director-general and chairman of the Arab Fund

Commission For Global Governance - UN affiliated commission.

Outlines of plans for global governance by year 2000.

http://www.cgg.ch/

Quotes from Our Global Neighborhood: The Report of the Commission on Global Governance, published by Oxford Press.

Also calls for:

Carter Administration

President Jimmy Carter

Gus Speth (father of America's environmental lobby/founded National Resources Defense Council and World Resources Institute/Clinton-Gore transition--appt. to direct U.N.'s Development Program)

Global 2000 Report called for vigorous determined new initiatives...unprecedented global cooperation and commitment...sustainable economic development

Natural Resources Defense Council

Gus Speth (founder)

World Resources Institute

Gus Speth (founder)

International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Shridath Ramphal of Guyana (secretary general of the Commonwealth of Nations, comprised mainly of developing nations)

Jay Hair (former chief executive of the National Wildlife Federation)

World Conservation Strategy: Living resource Conservation for Sustainable Development Government management of resource production/Government management of resource use/Government management of associated risks/ And a share in government power in such matters for what American politics calls public interest groups (NGOs)

The National Religious Partnership for the Environment

Al Gore

James P. Morton, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Chancellor Ismar Schorsch of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio

Reverend W. Franklyn Richardson, general secretary of the National Baptist Convention

Representatives from the National Association of Evangelicals, World Vision, Sojourners, the Intervarsity Christian fellowship, the AuSable Institute

Carl Sagan

Al Gore: "...will trigger the beginning of grassroots activity in tens of thousands of religious congregations across the country." 

Carl Sagan "...separately, neither science nor religion could solve the problem of redeeming the environment from the shortsidedness of the last few decades."

Wilderness Society

Howard Zahniser

Avowed Socialists who organized the society in 1930s

Robert Marshall

Benton MacKaye

Aldo Leopold

People's Forests "Public ownership is the only basis on which we can hope to protect the incalculable values of the forests for wood resources, for soil and water conservation, and for recreation....Regardless of whether it might be desirable, it is impossible under our existing form of government to confiscate the private forests into public ownership.  We cannot afford to delay their nationalization until the form of government changes.'

Wilderness Act 1964/"Earth Day" 1970/ Clean Water Act 1972/ Endangered Species Act of 1973

Council on Foreign Relations

Alger Hiss

These also formed the Federal Reserve Bank:

J.P. Morgan

Bernard Baruch

Otto Kahn

Jacob Shiff

Paul Warburg ("We shall have world government whether or not you like it--by conquest or consent." Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony, 1967)

John D. Rockefeller

The membership includes the elite in politics and the media.

Foreign Affairs

"Like FDR and every President since, JFK filled his State Department and surrounded himself with individuals who were, perhaps coincidentally, members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific, and Cultural Organization)

Julian Huxley (Britain's Population Investigation Commission, VP Eugenics Society)

Bertrand Russell

Robert Muller (Secretary-General of the UN's Economic and Social Council, founder of Robert Muller School of Ageless Wisdom in Arlington,Texas, helped establish the University of Peace in Costa Rica, from which came the International Educational Goals founded on the teachings of Alice Bailey, the curriculum from the School of Ageless Wisdom--the foundation of Goals 2000)

UNESCO: Its Purpose and its Philosophy: "Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that is unthinkable may at least become thinkable." Julian Huxley

Charter: "Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed."

"The Impact of Science on Society," UNESCO Journal: "Every government that has been in control of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen..." Huxley

""As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only precarious results.  As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism.  The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism...We shall presently recognize in nationalism the major obstacle to development of world-mindedness.  We are at the beginning of a long process of breaking down the wallf of national sovereignty.  UNESCO must be the pioneer."

Resource Manual p. 49.
UNESCO: Its Purpose and its Philosophy
"The general philosophy of UNESCO should be a scientific world humanism, global in extent and evolutionary in background...In its education program it can stress the ultimate need for world political unity and familiarize all people with the implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world organization...political unification in some
sort of world government will be required....Tasks for the media division of UNESCO (will be) to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures...to help the emergency of a single world culture...Even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugnic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable."

                 Sir Julian Huxley
First Director-general of UNESCO
1946-48
From THE HUMANIST
March/April, 1979

WEB Sites:
Go to http://worldpeace2000.org/ideas/    Robert Muller's picture will appear (he wrote the UNESCO World Core Curriculum)  notice he is chancellor of the University for Peace.  Scan down to bottom and follow the links.

http://members.aol.com/wpeace2000/un.htm      Global Conference UfP Costa Rica - check out the Peace Links at the bottom.   Click on education - top line far right - Does this web site directory look like your school's curriculum?  Next, under Education for Peace - click Global Education Model UN.  You can get to Robert Muller's school at bottom.   Now, back to Education for Peace Directory or directly in at http://www.atriumsoc.org/ Browse through PEACE LINKS.

http://www.unol.org/rms/ (or through Peace Links) to Robert Muller School.Links to related sites - take a look at Light Shift 2000, the logos tell an interesting story in themselves.  Go to THE VISION then Light Shift 2000, also Celebrate World Peace 2000, Proclamation.

http://www.usfoundation.org/HELP.HTM     Go to Our Mission - note last paragraph - change.  Also New Life Curriculum Forum - second paragraph - shift in world view.

http://www.sevenray.com/confmain.htm       The Tibetan is quoted in the World Core Curriculum as Muller's mentor.

\http://www.yosemite.net/sources/sevenray.htm or just go to search on: University of the Seven Rays - and browse.  I went on Hot Bot search engine.

http://www.dnai.com/~ngws/uni7.htm   The Tibetan and Alice Bailey are quoted throughout the World Core Curriculum - the UNESCO document - same pedagogy in our local schools.

http://spircom.org/links.htm     **  See Related Web Sites - Lucis Trust -Alice Bailey - quoted throughout the UNESCO World Core Curriculum

MULLER ON EDUCATION

"I had written an essay which was circulated by UNESCO, and which earned me the title of "Father of Global Education.'  I was educated badly in France I've come to the conclusion that the only correct education that I have received in my life was from the United Nations.  We should replace the word politics by planetics.  We need planetary management, planetary caretakers.  We need global sciences.  We need a science of a global psychology, a global sociology, a global anthropology.  Then I made my proposal for a World Core Curriculum."  Speech delivered at the University of Denver in 1995 (The World Core Curriculum has received the Department of Education's stamp of approval through the National Diffusion Network for use in public schools.) Robert Muller's School of Ageless Wisdom is fully certified by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) He is also Chancellor of the University of Peace in Costa Rica and one of the major promoters of peace education initiatives through the United Nations.

Whatever happened the liberals insistence upon the separation of church and state?

"Assisting the child in becoming an integrated individual who can deal with personal experience while seeing himself as a part of the `greater whole.' In other words, promote growth of the group idea, so that the group good, group understand, group interrelations and group goodwill replace all limited, self-centered objectives, leading to group consciousness." Trojan Horse, Brenda Scott and Samantha Smith

The following is from the Preface to "The Robert Muller School; World Core Curriculum Manual"

"The underlying philosophy upon which the Robert Muller School will be found in the teachings set forth in the books of Alice A. Bailey, by the Tibetan teacher, Djwhal Khul (published by Lucis Publishing Company, 113 University Place, 11th floor, New York NY 10083) and the teachings of M. Morya as given in the Agni Yoga Series books (published by Agni Yoga Society, Inc., 319 West 107th Street, New York, NY 10025).  

Webmaster:  I was unsure whether this School of Ageless Wisdom actually existed.  It does.  I visited it in Arlington, Texas.  No one answered my knock but there was a car in the driveway with a Clinton Gore bumper sticker

For those of you who think that stopping UNESCO and our government's Presidential involvement in that organization does NOT have a direct bearing on Education, I suggest you go to the UNESCO site and read their agenda for Education world wide at the UNESCO site for their "Second International Congress Technical and Vocational Education" at:

http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/seoul/document/cover.html

Pay close attention to the buzz words used on the Tech Ed pages such as "life long learners" "global economy" "bridge to the future",   "world of work" , etc etc. 

I also suggest you surf around the main site and beside this on Tech Education go back a bit to the UNESCO main index and read about Sex Ed and Population planning and stuff.

If this is all just a kook conspiracy theory, then I am glad I am in good company with Bob Barr and others in Congress who have finally seen the light.

For years we have asked "where is all this education crap coming from", perhaps this site I listed above will just begin to shed some light on that question. It's the old which came first the chicken or the egg question.

Thanks to Lois

Theosophical Society

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (founder)

Alice Bailey (assumed leadership after death of Blavatsky)

Robert McNamara

Henry Kissinger

David Rockefeller

Paul Volker

George Schultz

Bailey founded the Lucifer Publishing Company renamed Lucis Press in 1924.Published 20 books written by Bailey as "chaneling" agent for for the disembodied Djwhal Khul.  The Lucis Trust was one of the first NGOs to be granted "consultative" status with the UN.(Global Government , a special report by the Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise University of Texas at Austin)

Lucis Trust

Excerpted from:

New Age Roots

Dark Foundations of the New World Order

Steve Bonta

The New American, March 1, 1999

Although the Theosophical Society remains a force in the occult/New Age camp, its influence today seems to be confined to the education (or re-education) of those seeking alternatives to Western religion. The Society at Adyar parted ways with European and American power elites back in the 1920s, with the expulsion from the Society in America of Alice Bailey and her husband Foster Bailey. The Baileys inaugurated the Lucis Trust, a New York-based organization responsible for giving the New Age movement most of its modem organization and political trappings.

Like Helena Blavatsky, Alice Bailey claimed to have been overshadowed on various occasions by an "Ascended Master" (named Djwhal Khul), and to have penned many volumes of occult writing under his influence. The Lucis Trust, like the Theosophical Society, claims as one of its purposes the advancement of interest in occult and arcane religion. It runs a number of non-profit "arcane schools" designed to teach various occult doctrines and practices.

The Lucis Trust is also aggressively involved in promoting a globalist ideology, which it refers to as "goodwill." Its World Goodwill organization is closely connected to international elitist circles. Authors and participants in its various conferences read like a Who's Who of the globalist insiders. Featured on its website, for example, is the Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities, put forth in April 1998 as a companion document to the notorious UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Signatories to the World Goodwill document include: Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of West Germany; Malcolm Fraser, former Australian prime minister; Oscar Arias Sanchez, former prime minister of Costa Rica; Shimon Peres; Robert McNamara; Paul Volcker; and Jimmy Carter. Indeed, the Lucis Trust enjoys consultant status at the United Nations and, judging from the political writings appearing in its publications, it is as much a political organization as an occult religious one.

The following links are posted on the website of the Lucis Trust support group, the New Group of World Servers, one of four legs of the Lucis Trust, established up by Alice Bailey.

http://www.ngws.org/

http://www.ngws.org/service/groups.htm

The groups comprise the real working legs of the new age movement, taking world civilization where Bailey had envisioned through her mediumistic writings, first published under the name Lucifer Publishing company.  Their real aims are to establish a one-world governance/civilization, through collective love and "good will" and human service as a paradigm-shift process to usher in a new world order as described in Bailey's demonic books. Not everyone who is referenced below is necessarily a new ager, but it does reflect the inclusive drift of their larger working agenda.

Education - http://www.ngws.org/service/educ.htm

Arcane School

Arcana Workshops

Esoteric Sciences & Creative Education Foundation

Findhorn Foundation

Institute for Noetic Sciences

Institute for Visionary Leadership

Krotona Institute School

Office of the Caduceator New

Quint College New

Sancta Sophia Seminary

School for Esoteric Studies

Sirius Community

The Character Education Partnership

The Blavatsky Study Center New

The Mikel Institute and Center

The Radiance Technique International Association, Inc.

University of Seven Rays

White Mountain Education Association

Other

California Institute of Integral Studies New

Common Boundary

Human Service Alliance New

The Rocky Mountain Institute

VWIS (Voluntary Work Information Service) New

WorldTeach New

Childrens Education

Association Montessori Internationale

Atrium Society

Balanced Beginnings

CityKids Foundation

Global Elementary Model United Nations

International Education and Resource Network - iEarn

Institute for Visionary Leadership

Kids Peace Net

Legacy International

One Day Foundation

Robert Muller Schools International Coordinating Center

Steiner Waldorf Schools

Environmental (Human Services) - http://www.ngws.org/service/human.htm

1% Connecting the Community New

CARE International New

Food Relief International

Habitat for Humanity International New

Human Kindness Foundation New

Human Services Alliance

OneWorld Online New

Points of Light Foundation

UNICEF New

United Nations Development Programme

(Ecological Services) - http://www.ngws.org/service/eco.htm

Abundant Life Seed Foundation New

Context Institute New

Coral Cay Conservation New

Earth Dream Alliance

EarthLight Magazine New

EcoNet

Envirolink

Gaiamind

Greenpeace

Mana Foundation New

Manitou Foundation

Manitou Institute

National Audubon Society

National Wildlife Federation

Rocky Mountain Institute

Rural Advancement Foundation International New

Seeds of Change New

Sierra Club

Sirius Community

The Amazing Environmental Organization

WebDirectory

The Commons New

The Earth Council

The Institute for Earth Education

The Simple Living Network

Trees For Life

Union of Concerned Scientists New

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Worldwatch Institute

Esoteric / Metaphysical - http://www.ngws.org/service/esoteric.htm

The Agni Yoga Society

A.Priori

Arcana Workshops

The Arizona Agni Yoga Rainbow Group

Atmanet

Auckland Goodwill Unit of Service New

Blavatsky Net Foundation New

Bristol Goodwill

C.I.E. [Centro Iniciatico Europeo]

Center for World Servers

The Center for Planetary Goodwill

The Center for Visionary Leadership

CreatePeace.com

EarthLight Magazine New

EnHumanity

Esoteric Sciences & Creative Education Foundation

Esoteric World Service

Farmington Community Church and Wisdom Center

Findhorn Foundation

Forum Foundation New

Friends of Peace Pilgrim

Fundacion Desarrollo Nuevo Pensamiento

IPS--The Institute for Planetary Synthesis

Institute of Noetic Sciences (see Educational Groups)

Institute for Visionary Leadership

Krotona Institute of Theosophy

Kripalu Center

Los Angeles Heart Project New

Los Angeles InterGroup

Lucis Trust and Lucis Publishing

Master in the Heart Services New

Manitou Foundation

Manitou Institute

Meditation Groups Inc.

Nicholas Roerich Museum

Ojai Foundation

Other Dimensions Services

OPA--Operation Planet Love

Quebec Association for Goodwill Association [québécoise de

la

Bonne Volonté]

Rosicrucian Order AMORC

Sancta Sophia Seminary

Sirius Community

School for Esoteric Studies

South African Goodwill Association New

Southern Lights Goodwill

StarHouse

Sundail House

Sydney Goodwill Unit of Service

Terra New

Tetrada

The Hermetic Observatory - THOTh

Theosophical Society in America New

The Upper Triad

Triangles of Light Newsletter New

Unity And Diversity World Council

Universal World Harmony through Service (UWHTS)

White Mountain Education Association

World Goodwill

World Service Intergroup

World Service Meditation Group

World Service Network

World Unity and Service Trust

Political - http://www.ngws.org/service/fin_bus.htm

Bat Shalom

Center for Living Democracy

Center For Visionary Leadership

EcoPlan International

Friends of Peace Pilgrim

Heartland Institute

Peacemaker Community

The Carter Center

Volunteers For Peace International Workcamps

United Nations Foundation New

United Nations

Financial - http://www.ngws.org/service/financial.htm

Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies

Greenmoney Online Guide New

Investor Responsibility Research Center

Lifebridge Foundation

Social Investment Forum

Responsible Wealth - United For A Fair Economy

Business - http://www.ngws.org/service/business.htm

Business for Social Responsibility

Computer Professionals for Social

Responsibility New

Conservatree

Co-op America

Earth Tones New

Green Pages

International Ethical Business Registry New

Provender Alliance

Health and Medicine - http://www.ngws.org/service/healthmed.htm

American Red Cross

Burmese Refugee Care Project New

Citizens for Health

Creative Health Network

Human Services Alliance New

Interfaith Health Program

Psychologists for Social Responsibility

World Health Organization WHO

Political - http://www.ngws.org/service/politic.htm

Bat Shalom

Center for Living Democracy

Center For Visionary Leadership

EcoPlan International

Friends of Peace Pilgrim

Heartland Institute

Peacemaker Community

The Carter Center

Volunteers For Peace International Workcamps

United Nations Foundation New

United Nations

Religious - http://www.ngws.org/service/religious.htm

Center For Global Ethics

Drepung Loseling Monastery

Global Dialogue Institute

Haidakhandi Universal Ashram New

Institute for World Spirituality

International Network for Interfaith Health

Practices

International Interfaith Centre

IRFWP

Islam Intellectual Forum

Manitou Foundation New

Manitou Institute New

Pluralism Project

The Religious Freedom Home Page

The Jewish Reconstuctionist Federation

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Correction:  I had given Maurice Strong credit for Earth Day.  I appreciate Mr. McConnell setting me straight.

Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 12:22 PM
 Subject: From Earth Day Founder


 Dear Friends,

 Your web site brings out repeatedly the many conflicting forces at work in  society.  I happen to be an evangelical Christian - and was the founder of  the real Earth Day. Please to to my web site: www.earthsite.org.  Note:
"Commandments of Jesus."  I would be delighted if you would give me a call.

 John McConnell  -- the founder of the original Earth Day.

I did go to Mr. McConnell's web site (http://www.earthdayone.org/charta.htm#Prelude) and responded by e-mail...

Dear Mr. McConnell,

 Please forgive me for taking so long to respond to your email.  My yard was recently on the garden tour for the local botanical garden.  Needless to say I have been "sowing, hoeing and mowing" from morning till night.

 Then my computer got a "worm"!  Unfortunately this worm did nothing to aerate my soil and merely wreaked havoc on data!  I feel like composting my computer.

 I am finally back and ready to respond.

 I did check out the web site to which you referred me.  I must tell you the inclination toward world government has me alarmed.  I find it amazing that groups of non governmental organizations (unelected) would presume to dictate and assume the such power over the people of the world.  After reading David Hornbeck's book Human Capital I am quite aware of the determination of these groups to "create a sense of crisis" and then come up with "the answer" (predetermined and always enhancing their own power and advocacy group).  By manipulating opinion through altruistic jargon people are convinced to cede their independence and individualism to become
"human capital" to the world economy.  Man has become merely a cog whose purpose is to create wealth and deposit it into the hands of a world elite.  Man's only  purpose is to create wealth to be used by the "elite" for the "common good" according to their determination of that good.  No longer is the individual a special child of God created in His image for His purpose, allowed to dream and become...whatever that may be...farmer or president.  By taxing the world this "world" body would have immense power to become the foxes telling the chicken what's for dinner.  And I do not doubt that our own  country, the beacon of hope and freedom for the world, the most generous of all nations, would then become ripe for the plucking.

 Socialism has never worked.  It has merely bred tyrants and dictators (Lenin, Stalin, Mao for example) and led to blood baths.  Whatever group that tyrant decided was "inferior" or a "threat to the common good" was annihilated...gypsies, Jews, Christians, freedom fighters.  It is freedom that has elevated the standard of living for the people of this country. It is freedom to realize the potential of each individual that we should "redistribute" and then whatever "resources" each country has could be developed without making the entire world generic according to the supposed egalitarian edicts of a world elite.

 I realize it was an ideal of Plato's to breed an "elite" to rule and provide for the less able masses.  Unfortunately, history has proven that such arrogance in the "elite" produced only contempt for the masses and a disregard for the value of human life.  The end justifies the means.

 You and I share a commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.  Yet, I  wonder how we can be obedient to his "Great Commission" under the United Religions Initiative.  Can we truly love and not share the Truth and eternity with our fellow man?  How can we compromise God's Word and our Faith by coming to "consensus" on issues about which the Bible is so clear?  Are we not doing just what the last verse in the book of Judge's commented so sadly upon:  "And they all did what was right in their own eyes" ?

 I see the world government movement much like the building of the Tower of  Babel.  Man sets himself up as his own god.  We sow to the wind and will  reap the whirlwind.

 I will give you credit for being the founder of Earth Day (surely altruistic in its infancy), but was it your vision that it evolve into a symbol of the movement to confiscate private property, redistribute the wealth of the  world according to the whims of some world elite, and force Christians to compromise their absolutes to conform to the "current wisdom"?  I am concerned that we have come to worship the creation and not the Creator.

 You are now in your eighties.  You have had a very full life.  I have just  turned fifty (that was a tough day).  We will have much to tell our Savior when we see him face to face.  I know you, like me, long to hear him say, "Well done my good and faithful servant."

 Thank you for writing me.  I am honored.

 In His love...
Your sister in Christ,
Sharman Ramsey

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James Lovelock

Lyn Margulis (ex-wife of Carl Sagan)

Maurice Strong

Robert Muller (Officer of Temple of Understanding)

VP Al Gore is a frequent speaker here.

G-A-I-A, A WAY OF KNOWING: POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW BIOLOGY

"On Earth, she (gaia) is the source of life, everlasting and is alive now, she gave birth to humankind and we are a part of her."  James Lovelock at Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders for Human Survival sponsored by the UNDP's Global Committee of Parliamentarians on Population and Development and the Temple of Understanding (NGO accredited to the UN) As the result of this forum "education and action kits" were produced.  "We are required by our religious principles to look for the links between equity and ecology.  The fundamental emphasis is on issues of environmental justice, including air pollution and global warming; water, food, and agriculture; population and consumption; hunger, trade and industrial policy; community economic development; toxic pollution and hazardhous waste; and corporate responsibility."Amy Elizabeth Fox

Al Gore, Earth in the Balance

"I have come to believe that we must take bold and unequivocal action: we must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization.   Adopting a central organizing principle--one agreed to voluntarily--means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, every treaty and alliance, every tactic and strategy, every plan and course of action--to use, in short, every means to halt the destruction of the environment and to preserve and nurture our ecological system.

Minor shifts in policy, marginal adjustments in ongoing programs, mode-rate improvements in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change--these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public's desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle, and wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary."

Calls for tax on fossil fuels. And "global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over say, a twenty-five year period."

Organized "prayer breakfasts" for James Parks Morton, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and officer of the Temple of Understanding, to promote the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.

Led Senate to approve the Montreal Protocol which banned refrigerants.

Castro's Strong
friend in U.N.
Shares socialist agenda,
disdain for industrialized nations

By I. J. Toby Westerman
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_westerman_news/20000525_xnwes_castros_st.shtml

Maurice Strong, special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general on reform, recently concluded a visit to Cuba, promising greater cooperation and economic assistance to the communist-ruled island, according to Radio Habana Cuba, the official broadcasting service of the Cuban government.

Maurice Strong, special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general on reform, recently met with Cuban President Fidel Castro

Speaking with Castro and a number of top Cuban officials on a wide variety of topics, including cooperation between Cuban universities and the U.N. University of Peace, Strong also spoke about the upcoming U.N. Millennium Summit in New York, the purpose of which is to discuss the role of the United Nations in the 21st century.

Both Strong and Castro have voiced similar views on socialism and the future of humanity. Strong, despite having made a fortune in oil and utilities, is a self-described socialist and has earlier stated that for humanity to survive, it may be necessary "for industrial civilization to collapse."

Castro recently made a similar declaration while addressing a conference of underdeveloped nations in Havana in mid-April. Castro stated that the world's leading industrial nations control a "cruel, unjust, inhuman, and racist" economic system that is "incapable of preserving the human race."

Strong has close connections with numerous influential leaders in business and government around the world -- including the United States -- and is considered a possibility to fill the post of secretary general of the U.N. when the position again becomes open.

In addition to his leftist political views, Strong is reputed to be an avid devotee of Gaia, the earth goddess, and is closely involved with the Temple of Understanding in New York.

Strong's close working relationship with Castro stands in stark contrast to the recent condemnation of Cuba by another United Nations agency -- the U.N. Human Rights Commission, which has found Cuba guilty of continuing serious human rights abuses.

Along with Strong, there are those who disagree with characterizations of Cuba as abusive.

"Americans have been very propagandized against communism," said Lisa Valanti, president of the U.S.-Cuban Sister Cities Association, "against certain words that we use toward Cuba (such as) 'communist dictator,' 'anti-democratic' -- all these things which are in fact not real in Cuban life."

U.S. citizens "know nothing about the reality of Cuban life," Valanti said.

During an interview with Radio Havana, Valanti stated that the organization exists to "bring the people of one community into contact with people of another community," desiring to make "visible in the U.S. the realities of Cuban life."

One hundred delegates from the year-old U.S.-Cuban Sister Cities Association began their conference in Havana just as Strong concluded his business and left the island.

The U.S.-Cuban Sister Cities Association was founded in Pittsburgh in 1999 with three members: Mobile, Ala., Madison, Wis., and Pittsburgh, Pa. All three participating cities had made previous exchange arrangements with Cuba.

Another 30 to 40 cities have expressed interest in the program. Students, religious leaders and business personnel are involved in the exchange programs.

Participants in the organization's exchange programs are "seeds" whose ultimate goal is to put their view of Cuba "into political action," and to "impact legislatively," according to Valanti.

Critics of the Castro regime, however, are not welcome to participate in the organization's activities, Valanti added.

SYSTEMS THINKING AND GAIA (by Lynn Stuter

Systems thinking grew out the writings of Alfred North Whitehead. The science of systems thinking is accredited to a man by the name of Ludwig von Bertalanffy and his associates (one of whom is Ervin Laszlo, currently working with the United Nations). The generic term for systems thinking is general systems theory. A bit on Bertalanffy before I go on. Bertalanffy came to the United States from Germany on a Rockefeller grant. He returned to German-occupied Vienna, Austria in 1938. His biology textbooks were used by Hitler. He returned to the United States following WWII.

General systems theory states, simply, that the world is a system of subsystems (also called systems) all interconnected and interdependent to form a wholistic or holistic system; that within any system is an infrastructure that is analogous across systems, irrespective of physical appearance. Stated a bit differently, but to the same effect, is the Gaia hypothesis: the world is a living breathing organisim, irreducible to its parts; that what affects one part, affects all parts; that in the name of saving space-ship Earth, we must change our society. The Gaia hypothesis adds a spiritual dimension to systems thinking.

Systems thinking sees everything as wholistic, with all parts interconnected, interdependent. In the words of Senge, 1990, (The Fifth Discipline; the Art and Practice of a Learning Organization), systems thinking "is the fifth discipline because it is the conceptual cornerstone that underlies all of the five learning disciplines of this book." This discipline is the foundation upon which the other four disciplines function: personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning.

Recognize the terms? The systems thinking model, because of its wholistic nature, is cyclical--a circle or a spiral. The beginning is the end. You start at point A and your destination is point A. Thus it is that mankind can be said to be "creating the future." At point A "you" decide what "you" want the world to look like in x number of years. This is your goal or outcome. Example: the exit outcomes for the school, state, federal: what the child should know and be able to do as a result of his/her educational experience; what the child should look like. Now you align everything you do to achieve point A, the outcome. In this endeavor you align the curriculum, instruction and teaching methodologies to the outcome to ensure that it is reached; the measure of which is the assessment. I call this designing down, aligning back. It is also known as backmapping.

The technical term is a syllogism: a process used by behavioral scientists to bring about planned change. At this point, I shall digress to the philosophy behind systems thinking as it is important to understanding the semantics of systems thinking. Systems thinking sees everything as a system, analogous to all other systems irrespective of physical appearance. All things are equal, whether it be the ecosystem, or mankind--man is no better than animal or nature.

The underlying philosophy here is humanism that maintains that man is devoid of spirituality or self-determinism. It therefore follows that man must be conditioned (the process) to his environment (the outcome or goals), whatever it is decided that environment will be (creating the future). As stated in the Humanist Manifesto II, "…we can discover no divine purpose or providence for the human species. While there is much that we do not know, humans are responsible for what we are or will become.

No deity will save us; we must save ourselves." All the exit outcomes from all the school districts, states, and Goals 2000 are what man must be conditioned to to achieve the perceived environment. That perceived environment is based on "future trends" which, again, is cyclical, deciding what we want the world to look like (in the 21st Century), then back mapping. In this same vein, outcome based education is education based on outcomes--starting at the end and back mapping, ensuring the outcome. In researching "future trends" it becomes very obvious that they are based, not on fact, but on the doomsday prophesies of rabid environmental groups whose religious philosophy is very much humanistic/New Age. More on this later.

Systems thinking, to repeat, sees everything as wholes. It is in this context that appear whole language; the wholistic education system incorporating all services to deal with the whole child--mentally, physically, emotionally; life-role or real-life (wholistic) education; constructivist (hands on) learning (the child reinventing the wheel); integrated curriculum deleting the lines of disciplines; thematic units addressing social or life related issues (wholistic); conflict resolution in pursuit of the collectivist (wholistic) society; peer tutoring; the child centered classroom; individual learning plans; …. Everything done is to achieve the whole, with all systems (everything done to produce the child who will look like the exit outcomes) interconnected and interdependent.

Humanism is a religion that sees everything as wholistic, the basis of collectivist thought and action; it is the foundation upon which Marx built his philosophy (Marx saw Christianity as a religion of self-alienation, something to be stamped out at all cost). Marx believed the individual mind to be part of the universal mind (the wholistic mind), the collective. He saw the Hegelian dialectic as a process for achieving wholes, of Oneness of Mind through a process of thesis (an idea or proposition), antithesis (the opposite idea or proposition) and synthesis (the bringing together of thesis and antithesis). Synthesis then becomes the new thesis, and through a continuing process, Oneness of Mind theoretically occurs. If you look consensus up in the dictionary, you will discover that it means "solidarity of belief"; continual evolution to oneness of mind. To achieve consensus (wholism), one must give up his/her individual beliefs and conform to the group beliefs--again, oneness of mind. Left to its own devices, however, consensus is uncontrollable. Thus, to control the process, and insure the outcome, facilitators are trained in group dyanmics (how groups function) to ensure the outcome. Again we start at point A and return to point A. In the process, all participants hold the outcome instead of just the facilitator. In the words of one participant, the job of the facilitator is to make everyone in the group think its their idea.

Because of mulitple parties being involved in consensus, it cannot be rigid except in outcome. In each instance thesis and antithesis come into play, with synthesis as the outcome whether achieved incrementally or in one cycle. Thus it is that there is no right or wrong answer, everything is relative, situational. (This is the why and wherefore, also, of no right answer in the classroom.) Everything is thesis and antithesis, ever evolving in a spiral, whether individual thought or collective thought to the next higher plain. This is, incidentally, the process of attaining "higher order thinking." This is the reason for the teacher as facilitator, the "guide on the side; not the sage on the stage."

The facilitatiave process is not one that appeals to the cognitive domain; it appeals to the affective domain--how people feel. In achieving consensus, it is not what one knows about a subject that matters, it is how one feels that is important. As so adequately demonstrated by the final evaluation on the Schools for the 21st Century in Washington state, content is "excellence in terms of the change agenda," process is the "destination," the "product," and "what learning is about;" emotionality and affectivity are the means by which content and process will be achieved. If you want to change someones belief system, you do not appeal to what they know, you appeal to what they believe, how they feel about a subject. In a consensus circle, the facilitator sets the stage by appealing to the affective domain of the participants--emotionality is imperative. If they have learned nothing else from sex ed programs and the resulting rise in teen pregnancies, they have learned that appealing to emotionality sets the stage if the intent is for people to compromise their principles. Once the stage has been set, affective is brought into conflict with cognitive, and the individual pushed to conform to the group belief system. Once that has occurred, and individual principles have been compromised, it is very hard for the individual to reclaim his individuality. To do so requires breaking away emotionally from the new "family" and again thinking for oneself The social acceptance within the circle makes this very hard for most people to do--a facet that is counted on. What people learn about each other, intimately, within the circle "of trust" also becomes a coercive factor against anyone who might attempt to break away.

In the classroom, systems thinking plays out in the focus of the classroom. No longer is the focus knowledge. Now the focus is "real-life" or "life-role" education. Everything is set in the context of children "experiencing" real life situations. Thus it is that the focus in the classroom is social or life-related issues taught in the context of unit themes or thematic units, whether it is gender, prejudice, discrimination, the environment, homosexuality, life styles, etc. The primary focus, however, is upon environmentalism, which is why parents are finding a lot of it in the classroom. This environmentalism, is not, in most cases, based on scientifically validated facts, but rather, on the doomsday prophesies of rabid environmentalists with a self-serving agenda--an agenda that plays itself out in such events as the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and similar more recent events such as that in Japan. The fraudulent claim of global warming is a good example.

Future trends harkens back to a man by the name of Jay W Forester and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Forester was Peter Senge's mentor for 20 years according to Senge.) In 1972 Forester established a world simulation model known as World 3 for the Club of Rome (one worlders). This was a computer simulation model that, according to inputs, predicted future scenarios. A book was written over the twenty scenarios predicted by the simulation model, called "Limits to Growth" by Donnella Meadows.

None of the predictions have come true, but that's beside the point. It is the doomsday prophesies that "we must change our ways if we are to save spaceship Earth" that dominates the scene. This is also what comes across in the classroom. The purpose is to turn children into political activists for the cause. The same is true for addressing other social or life related issues. This is what Washinton SPI Bergeson meant, in her state of education speech, when she said, "Education beats out fighting crime, holding the line on taxes, creating new jobs, improving access to health care, or protecting the environment. And, by the way, when we achieve our educational goals, all of these problems will be addressed in new and better ways." In his book, "A Strategy for the Future, the Systems Approach to World Order," Laszlo predicted that a more accurate and concise model of World 3 would be forthcoming by the mid-1980's. This, or something similar, is undoubtedly where the predictions of what the world will look like in the 21st Century are coming from. The point that needs to be made here, is that in predicting the future, the future can also be created, starting at point A and return to it. In other words, whatever the "we" want it to look like. What "we" want it to look like is manifesting itself now in the classrooms across America under Goals 2000, STW and the plethora of bills building the system.

In creating the future, one of the first steps, is to analyze "where we are now" against "where we want to be". This is called a gap analysis. Undoubtedly most have heard this term. The gap analysis become the foundation of the change strategy--what "we" need to do to move people from "where they are now" to where "we want them to be"--from "here" to "there". The facilitative process then becomes the bridge between "here" and "there" whether in the classroom or in the community. This is why facilitators are used in the whole of the process, whether in the classroom or in establishing the mission and vision statements and the exit outcomes.

Once the cyclical process is put in motion, theoretically it will envelope the whole community at some point--except for holdouts like me. The success of systems thinking, however, is contigent on it encompassing everyone--all. Because not everyone can be so controlled, the necessity comes eventually, in the interests of the system, to invoke tyrannical means of achieving and maintaining compliance. This is why, in the USSR, dissidents were labeled "mentally ill" and incarcerated.

What is being achieved in America today is known as transformational Marxism, meaning that whereas it was achieved through revolution in Russia, and attempted in Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini, it is being achieved through gradualism in the United States. This is where the term transformational comes into play, especially in the third stage of OBE known as transformational outcome based education wherein social and life related issues become the primary focus of the classroom with knowledge only incorporated as it is used and applied.

Systems thinking is the method of achieving and maintaining a planned economy, in which every facet is carefully monitored and carefully controlled, including the human factor. Accountability, under systems thinking, is the gathering and analysis of statistically data to measure evolution to outcomes. Thus the establishment of huge data banks housing personally identifiable information on every man, woman, and child.   Coercion becomes a definite factor in achieving the desired outcome--whether it is determined that the parent, teacher or child is the problem.

This is not in Global Governance, but Lynn helps put the entire process into perspective.  I am truly grateful for those who share their understanding with the rest of us.

Remember who to thank in your community for bringing you into conformity with these goals.

Gorbachev Foundation

Gorbachev (now resides in the U.S. at our former Naval Base, the Presidio)

Gorbachev to Politburo in November, 1987:

"Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Prestroika and democracy in the coming years.  They are primarily for outward consumption.  There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes.   Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep." eco-logic "In Their Own Words"

Maurice Strong

Owns 63,000 acre Colorado ranch called Baca Grande which is home to Disciples of the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa (Tibetan Buddhism). Disciples of Babaji, and Indian Gury, celebrate Hindu rituals in a $174,00 solar powered, gold domed, adobe temple with an alabaster statue of Murti, the Divine Mother, built by the Lindisfarne Fellowship.  A Temple for Surfis.  A Temple for Taoists.  Strong and wife Hanne see Baca Grande as the "Vatican City" of the new world order. Wanted to build  a 46 story pink granite pyramid in compliance with instructions received from an intergalactic leader named Commander Kuthumi who was channeling  from the planet Arturus.  eco-logic, November/December, 1995

Frequent speaker at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine/Secretary General of the first Earth Summit in 1972/first Director of the UNEnvironment Programme/Secretary-General of the Earth Summit II in Rio in 1992/founder of the Earth Council/Chair of the Business Council for Sustainable Development/ co-chair of the World Economic Forum/ member of the UN's Brundtland Commission on Environment and Development/UN funded Committee on Global Governance/Lindisfarne Felowship/Socialist Party of Canada/ NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Maurice Strong is on the front of National Review's September, 1997, edition.

NEA

Joy Elmer Morgan

"...certain world agencies of administration such as: a police force; a board of education..." (1942)

In 1943 the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education called for a United Nations Bureau of Education.  UNESCO became the Board of Education for the World.

The Aspen Institute

The Esalen Institute

Senator Timothy Wirth (Senator, 1990, now Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs:  "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."

Richard Benedick, an employee for the State Department: "A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the green house effect."

Dr. Stephen Schneider: "We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have.  Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."

WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION GIVES THE UNITED NATIONS THE ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM NECESSARY TO ENFORCE THESE TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS.  RATIFIED BY THE 103RD CONGRESS.

Key Players Control World Money Supply

By John M. Berry

Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, June 28, 1998; Page H01

BASEL, Switzerland - Ten times a year, the financial barons who control the world's supply of money gather here on the bank of the Rhine River for drinks and dinner - and secret conversations that can shape the course of the global economy.

The 13 members of this economic cabal meet on the glass-walled 18th floor of the round headquarters tower of an obscure institution known as the Bank for International Settlements. From their seats at the conference table, they can look across the city and the river to Germany's Black Forest or farther west to French Alps on the horizon.

As they arrive and greet one another by their first names, waiters hover with drinks - they know each one's favorite. For privacy and candor, no staff members are present, only the principals and occasionally a guest, such as Michel Camdessus, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

The members of this secretive group are the governors of the central banks of the Group of 10 industrial nations, plus Switzerland. The most powerful voice in the room is the U.S. representative - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan or, if he can't attend, Vice Chairman Alice M. Rivlin.

As befits its power, the United States alone has a second seat at the table, occupied by William J. McDonough, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The 13th participant is the BIS's general manager, Andrew Crockett, a former Bank of England official.

This is how global finance does its most sensitive business, in these quiet Sunday-night meetings. The central bankers talk informally - with no agenda other than what is on their minds. The financial intelligence that emerges from these meetings - and perhaps more important, the personal trust - helps keep the international banking system steady in turbulent times, such as the financial crisis that has swept Asia over the past year. Roots in a War

But what, exactly, is the strangely named organization that hosts this secret conclave?

The BIS was established in 1930 to assist in the payments of reparations owed by Germany and other losers in World War I to the victors. Over the years it has become a central bank for central banks. It has also emerged as a clearinghouse for regulators - helping them supervise commercial banks, oversee foreign exchange markets and protect the world financial system.

Topic A on recent Sunday nights, of course, has been the financial crisis in Japan and other Asian nations. The 13 participants have discussed how to ease the Asian crisis and limit its impact on the rest of the world.

The group has focused, in particular, on ensuring that the crisis doesn't threaten the world's intricate system of settling international transactions. A collapse of that payments system, as it's known, is a central banker's ultimate nightmare.

Partly in response to the Asian crisis and partly to broaden its role beyond its European base, the BIS will open a satellite office in Hong Kong on July 10. The following day, the central bank governors will hold a regular monthly dinner outside Basel for the first time - in Tokyo.

If the meeting room in Basel could speak, it would tell a history of global monetary policy. It was at one of the dinners in 1982 that then-Fed chairman Paul A. Volcker twisted arms - one source said "browbeat" -the other governors to come up with money and other actions to help limit the economic damage from that year's default by Mexico and later by other Latin America nations on their governments' debt owed to foreign banks.

Mexico was the topic once again in late 1994 when the United States led a $50 billion bailout that involved money from the IMF, the United States and other countries and, as a backup, $10 billion from the BIS. That was an unusually contentious meeting because European central bank governors, including the powerful head of Germany's Bundesbank, Hans Tietmeyer, opposed the bailout on the grounds that it was unnecessary and a bad precedent.

At one critical dinner, recalls former Fed vice chairman Alan Blinder, "we took a lot of heat about Mexico. We were lucky that Camdessus was there. He was a lightning rod. The others were mad at the United States, but more so at the IMF." In the end, the United States got its way. "By central bank standards, the talk is amazingly frank because there is no audience," said Blinder, now an economics professor at Princeton University. "There is this old cliché about 'full and frank' discussions among diplomats. That means they were stiff and didn't say anything.

In this case, it really is frank. There is no gallery to play to. . . .You know, central bankers cooperate across national borders better than governments do, and I think this is one of the reasons."

Another glimpse of the secretive group comes from E. Gerald Corrigan, a managing director at Goldman Sachs & Co. As president at the New York Fed from 1984 to 1993, Corrigan attended 115 consecutive monthly meetings at the BIS.

With everyone at one table and "no staff, no agenda, no records and no communiqué . . . marvelous personal relationships developed," Corrigan recalls. "The consequence of that was that when something went wrong, working with these people was just so easy because of the trust developed by the frequency and the intimacy of the dinners. To me, that's the genius of the organization."

During Corrigan's time, plenty did go wrong - particularly with the world's banks. The Japanese bubble was expanding toward the bursting point, which eventually sent Japanese banks into a downward spiral from which they still haven't recovered. The U.S. stock market crashed in October 1987, sending shock waves around the world. Foreign exchange crises were so frequent they are now barely remembered. Adding to the disarray was the view of the leading U.S. banker, Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, that large banks with diversified portfolios didn't need much capital.

During those raucous years, financial institutions around the world were disregarding what Corrigan calls "prudential standards." The banks were lending like crazy, often in other countries where the bankers didn't understand the risks, and national bank regulators were not cracking down.

With Volcker taking the lead, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, a BIS group, began trying to draft a new set of international standards for bank capital - that is, the amount of reserves institutions must have relative to the amount of loans they have on the books. Corrigan recalls that the Basel Committee wasn't getting anywhere until the Fed and the Bank of England found that they had separately come up with similar approaches.

When the details were announced in January 1986, "instead of everybody getting mad at us, it became a rallying point," Corrigan said. "The next big obstacle was getting the Japanese on board. The big issue there was to what extent the standards would allow the Japanese banks to count their unrealized capital gains on stocks as part of the capital."

An allowance was duly made for the Japanese, and Corrigan said, "I thought at the time it would come back to haunt them." As indeed it has.

What analysts describe as the current "death spiral" of Japanese banks stems partly from the fact that every time the Japanese stock market falls, it reduces the amount of bank capital. That, in turn, makes it harder for Japanese banks to make new loans, which in turn limits economic growth - plunging the country deeper into economic crisis.

Central bank staffers, too, use the BIS for bonding. As a result of their regular meetings here, senior members of the governors' staffs have developed a network of their own that can be activated in a crisis.

Edwin M. "Ted" Truman, director of the Fed's international finance division, used that network last December, when there was a high risk that major South Korean banks would default on repayment of short-term debt owed to banks in Europe, Japan, Australia and the United States. Truman set up daily conference calls with his counterparts in all the home countries of the lending banks.

In the daily calls, Truman and the other central bank staffers shared information about their lending banks' situations. The exposure of the banks varied greatly, and it was proving difficult to get an agreement that the banks would roll over the loans and extend their maturity. The conversations helped move the negotiations forward, and the rollovers took place in January.

"This is a small illustration of the process," Truman said. "It's a sort of club, I guess . . . dealing with people we know."

The BIS also has some formal committees handling arcane banking matters.

Its Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems has been promoting better risk management by banks, better ways to settle transactions involving multiple currencies and better domestic payment systems. The Euro-Currency Standing Committee is studying how to reduce the vulnerability of the world financial system in the wake of the Asian crisis. And the Gold and Foreign Exchange Committee oversees world currency markets and is the only source of data on the size and transactions in that huge market.

Of course, the G-10 governors don't have to come to the BIS to have dinner together. In fact, most years when the IMF and World Bank annual meetings are in Washington in September, there is no monthly meeting here, and Greenspan plays host at the Fed.

A Bigger Board

Historically, the BIS has been essentially a European institution with U.S. participation. In July 1994, however, the governors of the central banks of Canada and Japan were added to its board. More recently, nine additional nations outside Europe - Brazil, Mexico, Russia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, India and Saudi Arabia - became members, bringing the total to 41.

Almost 100 nations had representatives at the BIS annual meeting earlier this month, including central bankers from member nations and from those that do business with the bank. Similarly, at the monthly meetings, there is a well-attended session Monday afternoon on central banking topics, which is open to any central banker.

Rivlin, the Fed vice chairman, says those wider afternoon sessions are valuable. "They are interesting," she said, "and I learn a lot."

During the annual meeting this month, Julian Francis, the governor of the central bank of the Bahamas, said his institution - like many others from smaller nations - relies on the BIS for technical assistance in banking supervision, payments and settlements, and banking technology. The BIS

has also helped in training some of his bank's employees. "We find it very useful," Francis said.

As a bank, the BIS has deposits of about $112 billion, some of which is in gold. The funds are invested with commercial banks and in securities, but central bank depositors can withdraw them at any time. Smaller central banks use the BIS both as a convenient way to invest their reserves and to keep secret the way in which they are managing the money. Even the Fed has some reserves on deposit here. Last year the BIS made roughly $500 million on its banking activities.

In some cases, BIS officials take great pains to make sure that orders to pay money out of the accounts of central banks in countries run by corrupt governments are related to the central bank's activities, rather than just the needs of some powerful official moving cash into his own secret account.

All but 16 percent of the BIS shares are owned by its member central banks. The remainder are in private hands, as the result of the United States's failure in 1930 to pay for its shares; they were instead acquired by a group of American banks, which later sold them, mostly to individuals in Europe. Some of the French and Belgian shares went the same way.

Even though the United States was included in the BIS from the beginning, the Fed's two seats on the board weren't filled until four years ago.

Initially the United States objected to the BIS mission of facilitating payment of German reparations. At the peace conference that followed World War I, the United States had opposed such payments.

At various points between 1930 and 1994, U.S. officials considered taking the board seats but a number of problems arose - such as the BIS membership of some communist nations in Eastern Europe - though not Russia, which has never been a member - and South Africa. With the end of the Cold War and of apartheid in South Africa, those barriers were gone.

"The BIS . . . is now too valuable to the Federal Reserve in carrying out its statutory responsibilities for the [Fed] not to be a full participant

in BIS institutional deliberations," Greenspan told Congress in explaining why the United States was finally joining the BIS board.

Two Big Issues

For the BIS staff, two big technical issues lie ahead:

The first is how to deal with the advent of the European Central Bank, which will open its doors this week as part of the creation of the Euro to replace the currencies of 11 European countries. The ECB will take over virtually all of the monetary policy responsibilities of the Bank of France, the Bundesbank and their counterparts, though not those of the Bank of England, which is not adopting the Euro immediately. Obviously, the head of the ECB, Willem F. Duisenberg, former head of the Dutch central bank, will be added to the Sunday dinner list. But what of the others, whose power will have been greatly diminished?

The second issue is whether to keep expanding BIS membership by including such nations as Malaysia, Argentina, Indonesia and Thailand - and in the process expand the bank's role in developing nations.

Meanwhile, BIS chief Crockett hopes to make this city on the Rhine the center of information, advice and cooperation on international financial supervision. The secretariat of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is here, as is the headquarters of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors. Crockett is hoping to persuade the organization of investment bank supervisors, which is located in Montreal, to move as well.

The BIS set up shop in Basel originally in 1930 because it was about a day's train ride for the European central bankers. Now the institution has to decide just how far it will travel from its Swiss home to fulfill it: role as guardian of global finance.

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President Abraham Lincoln warned us of these dangerous International bankers when he said "The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace & conspires against it in times of war. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who even question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me & the financial institutions at the rear, the latter is my greatest foe."

President James A. Madison warned "History shows that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain control over governments by controlling the money and the issuance of it."

President Thomas Jefferson once said "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid posterity under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale" and "The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. I am an enemy to all banks, discounting bills or notes for anything but coin. If the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent that their fathers conquered."

Thomas Jefferson was prophetic when he spoke these words. America is now mortgaged to the hilt and when it all collapses, the International Bankers will end up owning everything. They gave us paper "money" and we gave them everything, our labor, our inventions, our land and our possessions. If we do not stop this crime from continuing we will end up very much like serfs from the middle ages who had to rent land from the Land-Lords

Bilderberg - 'summit' opens in Sintra under massive security
(Click here for current list of participants)

SAMPAIO ATTENDS SINTRA SUMMIT

A massive security operation was launched in Sintra on Wednesday, in preparation for the
arrival of some of the world's most powerful people. A special unit from the PJ (Judicial Police)
was reported to be sweeping Penha Longa for listening devices late Wednesday. A film crew
from the UK's Channel 4 were being trailed by a team of plain clothes police and security men
after they attempted to film inside the hotel on Tuesday afternoon. Veteran Washington reporter
and Bilderberg specialist Jim Tucker, a regular and unwelcome visitor at Bilderberg conferences
since 1980, is also under constant surveillance. He told The News that he was spotted near
the hotel by the Bilderberg security team. Since the Bilderberg meeting was first revealed by
The News on May 1, scooping the world's media, the internet site of The News has been
experiencing unprecedented international interest. In the last four days the site has accumulated
over 368,000 hits, being linked to some of the largest media sites on the net. Only on Wednesday
did the Portuguese media start to comment on the upcoming 'summit' in Sintra, despite the fact
that the Portuguese press agency LUSA had alerted them to the story in The News four weeks
ago. Much of the information now being published is relying heavily on The News reporting of this
event over its last five issues. Guests confirmed by the Bilderberg Meeting to The News on Thursday
morning included in alphabetical order; Pinto Balsemão, Conrad Black, Kenneth Clarke, João
Cravinho, Paulo Fresco, Marçal Grilo, Richard Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger, Peter Mandelson,
Vasco de Mello, Murteira Nabo, Her Majesty Queen of the Netherlands, David Oddsson,
David Rockefeller, Richardo Salgado, President Jorge Sampaio, Rudolf Scharping.

The Bilderberg wall of silence suffered substantial damage this week. The Edinburgh based
Sunday Herald, WorldNetDaily and the famous Drudge Report all commented on the rendezvous
of world leaders currently taking place in Sintra.

The Scottish Sunday Herald published the story (May 30) and the internationally-respected
WorldNetDaily led with the agenda linking directly to The News site. The Portuguese national
radio station, RFM, reported on Wednesday the expected presence of Bill Clinton who, they
reported, would be unaccounted for over this weekend.

The Sunday Herald said in its article: "Every year the international media competes to be the
first to reveal the location and agenda for the conference". The Herald continued by saying:
"The winner of the Bilderberg scoop this year was a Portuguese newspaper, The News, which
boasts that it is the country's largest-circulation English language newspaper. It has published
the location and the detailed agenda of the conference".

Público refers to a "Lusa News Agency alert" quoting a newspaper, 'The News'.

The BBC Worldwide Monitoring Service this week printed a text of a report by the Yugoslav
News Agency, Tanjug, which said the plan to bring about a Balkan Vietnam was drawn up
secretly back in 1996 and reactivated at a meeting of the Bilderberg Group held in Scotland
last year, citing the May 27 edition of the Yugoslav newspaper "Vojska".

Vojska said that a thorough investigation conducted by independent US journalists had
disclosed that the group members included David Rockefeller, Giovanni Agnelli, Helmut Kohl,
Lord Peter Carrington, Queen Sophia of Spain, Valery Giscard D'Estaing, Baron Rothschild,
Margaret Thatcher, Lord Robert Owen and Henry Kissinger. The newspaper claimed that US
journalists had disclosed that the Bilderberg Group had in fact made plans for the "third
Balkan war" in this century.

Under the plan, drawn up at a session chaired by Lord Carrington, the first move was to be to
try and arrest "war criminals from among the Serbs" with extensive help of the Hague tribunal,
set up for that very purpose. The move was to provoke a stormy reaction by Serbs, which was
to be used as a pretext for a military intervention.

However, developments prevented the idea from being translated into practice, which required
a reserve variant - the fanning of interethnic conflicts in Kosovo-Metohija.

All indications are that a group is now going back to the original variant, the outcome of which
is the indicting of Yugoslav officials by the Hague tribunal, said the newspaper.

According to the same scenario, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Russia and Turkey
are to be drawn into the war, in addition to Yugoslavia, with Nato adding fuel to the fire.

In yet another 'extraordinary coincidence' one of the items on the Bilderberg agenda for this
weekend (as revealed to The News by Canadian based researcher John Whitley) is the formation
of a Western European Army which is high on the agenda of the meeting of European leaders in
Cologne on Thursday.

Stop press: As we went to press on Thursday we received the official press release from the
Bilderberg Meeting. It said: "The 47th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sintra Portugal June 3
to 6 to discuss the Atlantic Relationship in a Time of Change. Among others the conference
will discuss NATO, Genetics, Emerging Markets, The New Economy, European Politics,
US Politics, International Financial Architecture, Russia. Approximately 120 participants
from North America and Europe will attend the discussions. The meeting is private in order
to encourage frank and open discussion.

"What is unique about the about Bilderberg as a forum is the broad cross-section of leading
citizens that are assembled for nearly three days of informal and off-the-record discussion
about topics of current concern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and the international
economy; the strong feeling among participants that in view of the differing attitudes and
experiences of the Western nations, there remains a clear need to further develop an
understanding in which these concerns can be accommodated; the privacy of the meetings,
which has no purpose other than to allow participants to speak their minds open and freely.
In short, Bilderberg is a small, flexible, informal, off-the-record international forum in which
different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced.

"Bilderberg's only activity is its annual Conference. At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed,
no votes taken, and no policy statements issued. Since 1954, forty-six conferences have been
held. The names of the participants as well as the agenda are made available to the press.
Participants are chosen for their experience, knowledge, and their standing; all participants
attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity.

"There usually are about 120 participants of whom about two-thirds come from Europe and the
balance from North America. About one-third are from government and politics, and two-thirds
from finance, industry, labor, education, communications.

"Participants have agreed not to give interviews to the press during the meeting. In contacts with
the news media after the conference it is an established rule that no attribution should be made
to individual participants of what was discussed during the meeting.

From the Front Page, Portugal's Weekend newspaper in English, June 6, 1999

Bilderberg meetings

Current List of Participants, Hotel Caesar Park Penha Longa, Sintra, Portugal

June 3-6, 1999

Honorary Secretary General - Honorary Chairman, Halberstadt Victor - Davignon, Etienne, Professor of Economics, Leiden University, Chairman, Société Générale de Belgique.

I - Agnelli, Umberto - Chairman, IFIL - Fianziaria di Partecipazioni S.p.A.

E - Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Esperanza - President of the Spanish Senate

USA - Allaire, Paul A. - Chairman, Xerox Corporation.

P - Amaral, Joaquim Freitas do Amaral - Member of Parliament.

S - Aslund, Anders - Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

P - Balsemão, Francisco Pinto - Professor os Communication Science, New University; Chairman, Impresa, S.G.P.S.

S - Barnevik, Percy -Chairman, Investo AB.

USA - Bayh, Evan - Senator (D. Indiana).

I - Bernabé Franco - Managing Director and CEO, Telecom Italia.

S - Bildt, Carl - Member of Parliament.

CDN - Black, Conrad M. Chairman, Telegraph Group Limited.

F - Boucher, Eric Le - Chief Editor, International, Le Monde.

USA - Boyd, Charles G. - Executive Director, National Security Study Group.

CDN - Chastelain, John A.D. de - Chairman, Independent International Commission on Decommissioning.

GB - Clarke, Kenneth - Member of Parliament.

N - Clemet, Kristin - Deputy Director General, Confederation of Business and Industry.

F - Collom, Bertrand - Chairman and CEO, Lafarge.

USA - Corzine, Jon S. - retired Senior Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co.

P - Cravinho, João Cardona G. - Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Territorial Administration.

GR - David, George A. - Chairman of the Board, Hellenic Bottling Company S.A.

USA - Dodd, Chistopher J. - Senator (D. Connecticut).

USA - Donilon, Thomas E. - Attorney-at-Law, O'Melveney & Meyers.

TR - Erçel, Gazi - Governor, Central Bank of Turkey.

TR - Ergin, Sedat - Ankara Bureau Chief, Hürriyet.

USA - Feldstein, Martin S. - President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research.

INT - Fischer, Stanley - First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund.

I - Fresco, Paolo - Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.

I - Giavazzi, Francesco - Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan.

CDN - Godsoe, Peter C. - Chairman and CEO, Bank of Nova Scotia.

USA - Graham, Donald E. - Publisher, The Washington Post.

NL - Grave, Frank H.G. de - Minister of Defense.

P - Grilo, Eduardo C. Marçal - Miniter of Education.

USA - Hagel, Chuck - Senator (R. Nebraska)

S - Hedelius, Tom C. - Chairman, Svenska Handelsbanken.

Status 3 June 1999

N - Hegge, Per Egil - Editor, Aftenposten.

CDN - Herrndorf, Peter A. - Former Chairman and CEO, TV Ontario; Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Toronto.

USA - Hoagland, Jim - Associate Editor, The Washington Post.

N - Höegh, Westye - Chairman of the Board, Leif Höegh & Co. SAS; Former President, Norwegian Shipowners' Association.

USA - Holbrooke, Richard C. - Ambassador to the UN designate.

B - Huyghebaert, Jan - Chairman, Almanij N.V.

D - Ischinger, Wolfgand - State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

INT - Issing, Otmar - Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank.

USA - Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. - Senior Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP (Attorneys-at-Law).

BG - Kamov, Nikolai - Member of Parliament.

TR - Kiraç, Suna - Vice-Chairman of the Board, Koç Holding A.S.

USA - Kissinger, Henry A. - Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.

D - Kopper, Hilmar - Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank A.G.

GR - Kranidiotis, Yannos . Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs.

USA - Kravis, Marie-Josée - Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.

USA - Leschly, Jan - CEO, Smith Kline Beecham p.l.c.

INT - Liikanen, Erkki - Member of the EC.

CDN - MacLaren, Roy - High Commissioner for Canada in Britain.

CDN - MacMillan, Margaret O. - Editor, International Journal.

GB - Mandelson, Peter - Member of Parliament.

USA - Mathews Jessica T. - President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

USA - McDonough, William J. - President Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

USA - McGinn, Richard A. - Chairman and CEO, Lucent Technologies.

P - Mello, Vasco de - Vice Chairman and CEO, Grupo José de Mello.

F - Mestrallet, Gérard - Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux

UKR - Mityukov, Ihor - Minister of Finance.

F - Moïsi, Dominique - Deputy Director, IFRI.

INT - Monti, Mario - Commissioner of the EC.

P - Nabo, Francisco Murteira - President and CEO, Portugal Telecom.

D - Nass, Mathias - Deputy Editor, Die Zeit.

NL - Netherlands, Her Majesty the Queen of the.

ICE - Oddsson, David - Prime Minister.

PL - Olechowski, Andrzej - Chairman Central Europe Trust.

FIN - Ollila, Jorma - Chairman of the Board and CEO, Nokia Corporation.

INT - Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso - Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank.

D - Perger, Werner A. - Political Correspondent, Die Zeit.

GB - Porrit, Jonathon - Programme Director, Forum for the Future.

I - Profumo, Alessandro - CEO, Credito Italiano.

CH - Pury, David de - Chairman, de Pury Pictet Turretini & Co. Ltd.

A - Randa, Gerhard - CEO and Chairman, Bank Austria AG.

USA - Rattner, Steven - Deputy Executive, Lazard Freres & Co., LLC

USA - Richardson, Bill - Secretary of Energy.

USA - Rockefeller, David - Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee.

E - Rodriguez Inciarte, Matias - Executive Vice Chairman, BSCH.

S - Rojas, Mauricio - Associate Professor of Economic History, Lund University; Director of Timbro's Centre for Welfare Reform.

Status 3 June 1999