The dream was straightforward. World peace would have to come via world government. To that end, a five-point document was presented to men of high political standing – men who shaped foreign policy, who wielded power in the top universities, who commanded industry, who represented the most influential organizations and the most enlightened social circles of the day. Men who personally knew presidents and prime ministers; indeed, for some the White House was their house.

The year was 1912. Calls for “world government” precede that date, but the fact that we find much discussion today regarding “global governance” and the need for an “international political authority” – one hundred years removed from 1912 – demonstrates the continuum of a “big idea.”

Now, this century-old five-point statement wasn’t lengthy. Rather, it laid out the skeletal structure for world administration in only a few paragraphs. Today, this text would probably be described as a visioning document. Even now these five points are considered fundamental to a new global order.

1.     A world judicial system.

2.     An international parliament or congress.

3.     World laws.

4.     A global military force.

5.     Security architecture to ensure compliance under an international protectorate.

The person making the presentation was William C. Gannett, a Unitarian minister well connected in progressive New York circles. And the setting was the World Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to international order, and at the time comprised of politically elite board members. The foundation was also a recipient of Carnegie funding, and personnel interlock existed between the World Peace Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Today, the World Peace Foundation is still operational.

The following text by Gannett was extracted from the 1912 World Peace Foundation pamphlet, International Good-Will as a Substitute for Armies and Navies.

NOTE: For more information on the role of foundations in promoting global governance, download the January 2012 edition of Forcing Change.

The organization of the world in relations of peace and good-will! It is no longer a dream, it is a beginning. More than in any other specific direction, I said, we are looking toward the Hague to discern that beginning. But, looking from the Hague Conference onward, we think we can see clearly five steps in the coming organization:

- First. The International Court of Arbitral Justice, already existing in embryo, and even in that condition with six international quarrels settled by it; but not such a court as now, summoned with difficulty and only at pleasure of disputants, – not that, but one in permanent session, with regular judges, and easy of access. The nations, meanwhile, are making treaties of pledge with each other to refer to its final adjudication their questions of difference, – even those involving ‘honor and vital interests,’ if President Taft has his way. All blessings upon him! Between the two Conferences already held thirty-three separate treaties of ‘obligatory’ arbitration for certain classes of dispute were registered, and two of these made by Denmark, one with the Netherlands, one with Italy, stipulated arbitration for all differences without exception. Little Denmark was six years ahead of our big President. By the end of 1909 the number of arbitral agreements had grown to two hundred and eighty-eight. (I quote Ambassador Hill, who was part of the events he describes in his new book called ‘World Organization and the Modern State.’)

Second. An International Congress, like the present Interparliamentary Union, but official, with regular session, and with members delegated by the nations to represent them; its work to be the discussion and shaping and recommendation of measures that make for the commonweal of the world.

Third. A Code of International Laws, gradually evolving from the decisions of the International Court and the recommendations of the International Congress. Mr. Hill reminds us that ‘the price of a single battleship has never yet been expended by all the nations of the earth combined for the judicial organization of peace.’ Folly? Yes; and what in such matter was folly yesterday and insanity to-day is to-morrow criminality. If ten Powers – England, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, the United States, the South American Republics as a group, China, Japan – were to contribute each one tenth of a battleship’s cost to endow at The Hague the Arbitral Court of the Nations and a Commission on the Codification of World Law, that one-tenth apiece would save whole fleets of battleships on the seas, and promote more happiness on the earth than probably any other million which any of those nations ever has spent, or could spend today.

Forth. The Establishment of an International Police, – an international army and navy, with constituents furnished by nations in league for the purpose; at first by a few, and then by more; at first having very limited and then with widening function, all under treaty arrangements. A police system is needed by the world, and, until something international of the kind is created, it is hard to see how, with the nations under present conditions of distrust, disarmament on any large scale can be effected. It may not be so far off as we think, the day for this international police in place of the separate armies and navies with their ruinous cost. Even Sir Edward Grey, in responding to President Taft’s proposal, ventured to predict it. One or two hundred policemen, with three or four courts and a jail, are enough to represent all the force-element necessary to maintain justice in huge communities of hundreds of thousands of citizens. Peace rules between them, order is kept, the rogues are awed, the criminals are held at bay, and measures for the common good are carried out, because the public opinion of the whole community is back of the tiny blue-coat army that wears the buttons and carries the night-stick of authority. A small army, a small navy, with the united strength of the great Powers behind them, would insure national protection and the world’s peace more effectively, and with incomparably less cost to humanity, than the rival armies and navies that now strut and sidle and growl and dare each other to cross the boundary lines.

Fifth. An International Protectorate; that is, the employment of the joint public opinion of the nations thus organized, and, when necessary, employment of the International Police, as a Protectorate against national crimes. Under such a Protectorate we may look for a great extension of three international methods of maintaining peace in the world, – Mediation, Intervention, and the Neutralization of nations and territories.

Call this a dream, if you will. The soldiers will. Half the diplomats will. Politicians will, unless they are statesmen. Many, not all, of the business men will. Most of us will. But some of us will add, ‘A dream that is even now beginning to come true, and which the twentieth century will carry far toward fulfillment.’ The years will decide.

Hanging in my office is an “Anti-Stress Therapy” sign: “Bang Head Here.” It was a Christmas gift from my daughter. If I knew it would have helped, I would have gladly “banged away.” For you see, I’ve had a crazy time writing this latest issue of Forcing Change. Three solid weeks of intense struggle with writing block have left me feeling wiped-out. This had to be one of the toughest editions to pen so far.

It wasn’t that the information I had to work with was thin or superficial. Quite the opposite. I had too much data; annual reports and tax returns, memorandum, autobiographies, Congressional findings, historical texts, and various articles and essays. It didn’t help that the subject matter resides in the midst of a complex web of political and social issues – including education, propaganda, psychology, and foreign affairs. And researching something this big meant more than just “reading a book or two.” Good research always requires substantially more; It means cross-referencing name lists and project threads, digging into personal backgrounds, searching for definitions, exploring the historical context, and wrestling with ideological nuances and conflicting perceptions. When all of this was done, I realized I could never do the topic justice, nor would I be able to insert enough caveats or explanatory notes.

Alas, I wrote much, deleted much, re-wrote, and then… where’s that red metallic sign?

Yes, this issue of Forcing Change digs deep. In a sense I feel like I’m spilling the “family secrets,” and yet I have hardly scratched the surface. From the era of Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Carnegie, to the findings of a special Congressional committee in the mid-1950s, to my own experience at Global Governance 2002 – and all the way to Hilary Clinton at the Council on Foreign Relations and the mass protests of the Occupy Movement – this edition tackles the “elite” change peddlers who have done more to shift our society than we realize. Welcome to the interlocking world of major foundations, think-tanks, government, and the malleable public mood. It’s about how the influence industry has shaped society in a way that causes so many people – your neighbors and friends, your government and schools – to accept a global transformation worldview. Of special note is the chart on page 10, and the explanation of the “feedback-loop” on page 11.

Here are a few points taken from this edition:

- The rise of foundations during America’s Progressive Era, and their desire for “world government” and social transformation.

- Peeking into the Establishment cycle; the incredible interlock of personnel.

- How this influence community is considered “the closest thing we have to a shadow government.”

- Global governance and collective security programs initiated by these same foundations.

- The evolutionary and progressive technique of shifting the public’s worldview.

- Eugenics in America and Germany.

- And a five-point platform on world government advocated by one of the oldest foundations… in 1912.

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Professionally:

- I hate writer’s block! For weeks I banged my head against the wall as I tried to pull together the January issue of Forcing Change. Alas, as the month came to a close, I was able to bring this edition together – an examination of the interlock between progressive foundations, think tanks and government, and how this impacts a malleable public. It’s on the Forcing Change website now! My head still hurts.

- I hosted a radio show for the first time! Mid-point in January, when I was on Constance Cumbey’s My Perspective, she asked as the program wrapped up if I would run the show the following week as she couldn’t be on the air. It was challenging in its own way, but a good experience. I was also a guest on three different shows.

1. On The Wall Radio, a division of Active Christian Media.

2. Worldview Weekend Radio, with Brannon Howse.

3. My Perspective, with Constance Cumbey.

- Spent a day doing research at the University of Manitoba. My daughter was there as a my “assistant” for the day.

- Spoke at two churches; 1) Lakeside Gospel Chapel in St. Laurent, Manitoba. 2) Neepawa Christian Fellowship in Neepawa, Manitoba.

Personal:

- My son, Scott, passed his Glider’s Pilot ground exam!

- Started the year off by celebrating with friends and then attending a New Years Day “Teichrib” gathering.

- Our family visited with other homeschool families in this region of the province; a very enjoyable time! One evening was a Robby Burns supper, complete with haggis. Yummy!

- January weather was exceptional for Manitoba. Above normal temperatures, even hitting a few degrees above freezing, were welcomed during a month that often has -30 degree ambient temperatures for weeks. We did have a few -30 days. Add the wind, and they had the cutting bite of -45.

Reading:

1) Tapping Hitler’s Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942-45, edited by Sonke Neitzel (Frontline Books, 2007).

2) The Socialist Movement by J. Ramsey MacDonald (William & Norgate, 1911).

H.G. Wells was one of the most influential visionaries of the early twentieth century. His many books, both fiction and non-fiction, inspired multitudes of men and women who, like Wells, looked to a “World State” as the savior of humanity. Although he wrote often of a World State, Mr. Wells’ optimism for the future of mankind waned due to the destructiveness of World War II. Nevertheless, his desire for an “Open Conspiracy” – a movement of organizations and people seeking the establishment of a world collective – was forefront in his thinking.

If you want to understand this movement, historically and in its contemporary formats, then read the Forcing Change journal. Forcing Change is entering its 6th year!

Here’s ten kicker quotes from Mr. Wells on advancing the Open Conspiracy and its anticipated outcome: The World State.

1. “The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved…” – H.G. Wells, The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921), p.21.

2. “We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.” – H.G. Wells, Washington and the Riddle of Peace (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922), pp.215-216

3. “It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.” – H.G. Wells, Journalism and Prophecy, 1893-1946 (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1964, compiled and edited by W. Warren Wagar), p.214. This quote first published in 1931.

4. “A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.” – H.G. Wells, Journalism and Prophecy, 1893-1946 (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1964, compiled and edited by W. Warren Wagar), p.252. This quote first published in 1939.

5. “I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State…” – H.G. Wells, A Year of Prophesying (Toronto, ON: Tyerson Press, 1924), p.86.

6. “The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.” – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Volume III – Modern History (New York, NY: Triangle Books, 1940 edition), p.1170.

7. “Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united… To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives.” – H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928), pp.27-28.

8. “The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves… The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.” – H.G. Wells, The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921), pp.37-38.

9. “The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.” – H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928), p. 163.

10. “The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.” – H.G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928), p.193.

One location the documentary producers didn’t talk about or tape was the Souris Valley Mental Health Hospital in Weyburn, Saskatchewan – arguably one of the first locations where LSD was experimented with on unwitting patients. (see the January 2011 issue of Forcing Change and its article, “Psychedelics on the Prairies,” for more information on the Weyburn connection – “The psychedelic era did not begin in New York. Nor did it get its start in London or Paris. Instead, it began in Saskatchewan…”).

This documentary was produced by ABC and aired in 1979.

Getting ready to go skating on the river at the farm.

Professional

- Published the December edition of the Forcing Change journal. At its core was an extensive “global calendar of events” for 2012, highlighting major economic, political, trans-human, and religious events that will influence society in the coming months and years. Each listing included the date, location, title or theme, and a brief description of the event. This was a research intensive edition!

- Was a guest on Derek Gilbert’s VFTB talk show, and on Brannon Howse’s Worldview Radio.

- Spent time at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba. And I had a research assistant! My 13-yr old daughter accompanied me and was a huge help. After getting over the initial shock of seeing so many books – the most she had ever seen in one place – I showed her how the cataloging system worked, and she dove into the stacks and chased down the volumes I needed without any hesitation.

Personally

- Christmas without my mother was… different (see An Extraordinary Woman). But my father did well! We gathered as a family, spent time skating on the river that runs through the farm, lit some good sized fires, did a little-bit of off-road driving, and had a general good time.

- Christmas on my wife’s side was very enjoyable. Games, visiting, food and friendship; I am truly blessed by the family I have, and that I married into.

- Visited with friends from all parts of the province, and traveled down to south-central North Dakota to see some friends there.

- Spent time chainsawing with my son in the bush by our cabin site; cleaning up dead trees and dragged out logs. It ended with a nice fire to warm our cold fingers, and some hotdogs to chase away the growling in our stomachs.

- And of course, Christmas programs! Both my son and daughter participated in our church’s Christmas evening, and they produced a short, stop-motion animation for their homeschool Christmas program. The animation centered on the unofficial Christmas truce during the first year of World War I (1914) between German and Scottish/British/French troops.

Reading

- Didn’t do as much reading as I wanted.

1) Erik von Keuhnelt-Leddihn, Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times (1952/1992). A critical examination of historical and contemporary views of liberty and democracy/equality. Keuhnelt-Leddihn was an Austrian-born historian and social theorist; and in Liberty or Equality he upheld a monarchist position and Catholic foundation as opposed to democracy and Protestant social structures.

2) Bishops’ Ludwig Muller and Weidemann, The Germanisation of the New Testament, edited by H.C. Robbins (1938). This brief document contains major excerpts of Nazi-rewritten sections of the New Testament. For myself, reading this is part of an ongoing quest to better understand the worldview of German National Socialism.

3) James Rollins, The Last Oracle. Sometimes a person needs to pick up a piece of fiction… what makes Rollins’ work interesting is that he weaves historical elements into his plot.

4) Charles B. Seib, The Woods: One Man’s Escape to Nature (1971). A short, light read of Mr. Seib’s struggle to build and enjoy a cabin-in-the-woods as a get-away from the bustle of newspaper life in Washington DC.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Although David Dyck and I are related, it wasn’t until we met at a conference in Winnipeg a number of years ago that we finally connected as family in a meaningful way. Since then, Dave and his wife Cathi, and their children, have become exceptional friends. All of the family are gifted musicians, all are solid individuals – right down to the youngest (don’t confuse being solid with being safe), and all are fun to be around. When I started developing the idea of producing the Forcing Change journal, I sought Dave and Cat’s input.

Dave and Cathi head up the Westman Bible Conference, and formed Scita>Scienda, “a fellowship of rogue scholarship.” Cat is an author and freelance writer, and hosts Scienda Editorial, an authorship service that includes manuscript critique and evaluation, editorial services, and mentoring. Her clients have received awards and significant nominations. She’s also the managing editor of Scienda Quarterly.

Dave works at a large plant in a neighboring city, but his real “work” interests revolve around his projects: Biodiesel, truck building, home renovations, and all things mechanical. And sailing. Indeed, the whole Dyck family loves the exhilaration of running the wind in their 23-footer, and their oldest son has demonstrated real potential in the sport. And yet, they live in the wide-open prairies of Manitoba, where winter shuts down all things sailing… except the Dyck family.

Therefore, it gives me great pleasure to post a video of Dave’s inaugural run on his homemade ice-boat, which was constructed… in the living room. Check out Cathi’s write up, “Sailing on Thin Ice.”

Sail on, my friends, sail on.

Throughout the development and production of the Forcing Change journal and research work, Dave and Cat have been encouraging and supportive – in fact, they were the first readers to jump on board.

2012 is almost at the door, and the December issue of Forcing Change provides you with a unique tool – a global calendar of events. Almost 50 listings long, this calendar gives you a heads-up regarding world-change contact points throughout the coming year. Each listing is an event, conference, meeting, or other happening that adds to the transformation of our Western world. By being aware of these events, their locations and the main themes, you will have a greater understanding of the coming trends and challenges. It’s a calendar that you will want to turn back to throughout the year; a reference point to 2012.

Some of the topical themes found in the calendar include,

- Major agendas tucked into United Nations events, with an eye to the Rio+20 conference in June.

- A host of interlocking meetings in Chicago during 2012; NATO, G8, the Nobel Summit and more, including a planned “Challenge the NATO War Makers” counter-event being organized by Marxist, socialist, and progressive organizations.

- Momentum towards world federalism, global governance, and international management; with events taking place in Washington DC; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Nice, France; Madrid, Spain; Dublin, Ireland…

- Transhumanism and social evolution.

- Pagan gatherings, the “World Interfaith Harmony Week,” and New Age transformation events leading to the conclusion of 2012.

Members of Forcing Change can immediately download this extensive report. If you’re not a member, join up today and gain access to the December edition and 5 full years of important back issues!

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