By Joan Veon
January 27, 2005
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DAVOS, SWITZERLAND -- For most Americans, the Super
Bowl is the only thing of importance on their mind.
Yet 5,000 feet up in the Swiss ski resort of Davos,
Switzerland, the rich and powerful CEOs that create
wealth and jobs are meeting to discover the "state of
the world." While networking is key and business is
accomplished, so too, is the political agenda that is
far different from the one found in the U.S.
Constitution and Bill of Rights. With the blessing of
its Republican and Democratic leaders, America is
being pulled into a global framework of states that
are now "interdependent" as all of the barriers between the nation-states
have been torn down.
Yearly the WEF brings together 1000 of the world's
most powerful CEO's along with governmental policy
decision-makers. This year it will sponsor 200
workshops covering a wide variety of topics: China,
Climate Change, Poverty, the Global Economy, Islam, US
Leadership, Bubble Economies, the World Trade
Organization, Terrorism, Private Equity, Oil Prices,
Crises, etc. Special messages will be heard from
French President Jacques Chirac, British Prime
Minister Tony Blair, the Executive Vice-Premier of the
People's Republic of China, Huang Ju, former U.S.
President Bill Clinton, and others.
This year CEO's are being given a crash course in
"world government". French President Jacques Chirac
delivered the opening address and called for a global
tax to pay for helping poor countries out of poverty.
The World Economic Forum is a facilitator for the
goals and objectives of the United Nations-which is
world government. In fact, this year, if you know what
to look for, you can see that the undercurrent of this
year's meeting is to sell the participants on the
"Reform of the United Nations," a report released in
December, 2004. Entitled, "A More Secure World: Our
Shared Responsibility," it outlines the changes needed
throughout the UN system to help it conform to the
threats of terrorism in the 21st century.
The Reform of the UN recommends basically a world
military state in which the UN has a rapid deployment
force (already set up), the Security Council is
enlarged with power to enforce sanctions, member
states provide additional troops for disbursement to
the UN at any time, the UN is given a legal mechanism
to enforce the International Criminal Court Statutes,
a global police force is set up for peacekeeping and a
peacebuilding commission is established to help
countries avoid the state of collapse and sliding into
war by transitioning them from war to peace. The
Peacebuilding Commission is not in the Charter and
will have to be voted on.
Furthermore, the Reform of the UN is built around a
new radical concept of "collective Security."
Collective security rests on three basic pillars: (1)
Today's threats recognize no national boundaries, (2)
are connected and must be addressed at the global and
regional levels as well as the national levels and (2)
no state, no matter how powerful, can by its own
efforts alone make itself invulnerable to today's
threats. Any event or process that leads to
large-scale death or lessening of life changes and
undermines States as the basic unit of the
international system is a threat to international
security.
International security is based on: (1) economic and
social threats such as poverty, infectious diseases
and environmental degradation, (2) inter-state
conflict, (3) Internal conflict such as civil war and
genocide, (4) Nuclear, radiological, chemical and
biological weapons, (5) Terrorism and (6)
Transnational Crime. In other words, the world will
intervene for HUMANITARIAN PURPOSES as well as for
natural disasters. This is a complete change from the
old style which was based only on war. This concept,
"seals the deal" with regard to interdependency and
inter-connectivity between nation-states.
Today the Forum held a three hour Town Hall meeting
with participants describing Tough Issues they would
like to prioritize for the 21st Century. They are, in
order of importance: (1) Poverty, (2) Equitable
Globalization, (3) Climate Change, (4) Education, (5)
Middle East, (6) Global Governance, (7) Weapons of
Mass Destruction, (8) Global Health, (9) the Global
Economy and (10) U.S. Leadership. Most of them fit
into "Collective Security."
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan wrote in an article
that appeared in the World Economic Forum's Global
Agenda Magazine,
By integrating all these issues into corporate
risk management, companies can help the international
community advance the collective security agenda,
while ensuring the viability of their businesses.
What we see here is a merger between government and
business. Partnership is a key building component in
this new world that we find ourselves in. The United
Nations formed the Global Compact in Davos in 1999
which basically asks the corporations of the world to
partner with the UN in building schools, roads, sewers
and clean water for the peoples in developing
countries. This concept is a far cry from the "old
fashioned" form of government that we knew. When you
add collective security to global taxation, you find
that we really are in a "New World Order."
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