In this century there have been several brazen and open calls for world government by globalists. In its special report titled "Globalists v. The nation state,for instance....
"On 17 February 1950, for instance, a leading member of the Council on Foreign Relations, James P. Warburg, told a US Senate Committee: 'We shall have world government whether we like it or not...by consent or by conquest.'
"In 1976, Professor Saul Mendlovitz, director of the World Order Models Project, said there is 'no longer a question of whether or not there will be a world government by the year 2000.'
"One prominent advocate of global government is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to President Carter. Over 20 years ago he declared in his book Between Two Ages that "national sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.' He suggested a piecemeal 'movement toward a larger community of developed nations...through a variety of indirect ties and already- developing limitations on national sovereignty.'
"More recently, the advocates of world government have toned down their rhetoric, not wanting to frighten the audience. For instance, Senator Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), a former president of the United World Federalists, told Transition, a publication of the Institute for World Order, that: 'The more talk about world government, the less chance of achieving it, because it frightens people who would accept the concept of world laws.' He added: 'I believe deeply in the need for world law...I believe in the concept of federalism on the world scale.'"
Quite simply, the concept of piecemeal functionalism says that trying to create a new world order directly, through large all-encompassing organizations such as the UN will not work. However, if the focus of activity is taken away from such large organizations and is dispersed among many organizations, and if the pieces that will make up the whole can be kept to appear separate--then piece by piece, treaty by treaty, law by law, issue by issue and organization by organization--all of the pieces can be put together like a giant jigsaw puzzle. And when the puzzle is complete, the final picture that will appear is that of a new world order.
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One of the pieces of this global puzzle requires that national trade barriers be dismantled. Giving a speech in Vancouver, BC in May 1995, the Japanese Minister of International Trade and Industry, Ruytaro Hashimoto, noted, "You can point to many things that the ending of the Cold War has done to our world, but one of them, certainly, is a general shift of interest from the pursuit of ideological goals to the pursuit of economic prosperity. As centrally planned closed economies have begun to try to become open market economies, the frontier for the world economy has greatly expanded. This, coupled with rapid advances in information and transportation technologies, has turned the entire world into a single market, where dynamic forces of competition are at play...Do the letters N.A.F.T.A. ring a bell?
"In an age when corporations choose a country, not the other way round, the economic prosperity of a nation will depend on its ability to offer an attractive business environment as part of the global business network. A country that builds barriers to protect its domestic industry ends up depriving itself of its own economic vitality in the medium- and long-term.
"By extension, the whole world can hope to achieve economic prosperity, as well as political and social stability, only by removing barriers against global businesses so that they may operate freely."
This was the reasoning behind the establishment of the World Trade Organization, to dismantle national trade barriers. According to Peter Sutherland [the first head of the WTO], speaking at the Davos Economic Forum in January, 1995, "the most immediate specific need is for revised structures for co-ordination on international economic issues at the highest political level. We have in short a structural deficit in the world economy, in terms of both the making of policies and their execution."
The reason for dismantling trade barriers is to enhance economic cooperation as the Japanese MITI noted in his speech. This is something that is taking full swing in the form of trading blocs or regions. Hence we have seen the birth of so many trading blocs in recent years like NAFTA, APEC, and ASEAN.
The earliest example of this type of trading bloc was the European Economic Commission. The EEC, now the European Union, is a shining example of how these trading blocs will ultimately lead to a supra-national global government.
Intelligence International Ltd. observes, "[I]n the attempt to move towards supra-national government without anyone noticing it much, has been to concentrate on the economic and trade spheres.
"There has been a proliferation of regional trade blocs, most of which start life as innocent-sounding associations for the promotion of trade but which soon develop wider governmental-type ambitions.
"The European Union (EU) is the best and most-developed example of this. When the British were faced with the question of whether or not to join this organization in 1972, it was a Common Market they were joining. It progressed to become the European Economic Community, then the European Community, and finally the European Union.
"This progress in nomenclature has been matched by a progression in the accumulation of supra-national powers. The EU is very much more than the customs union it started life as. It is now quite close to achieving its aim of creating a political union in Western Europe.
"The pressure for a single currency, a European police force, and a joint defence and foreign policy is growing.
"But if the EU is the best and most-developed example of this process at work, it is far from being the only one. Sooner or later all regional trade blocs move from espousing free trade to promoting 'fair' trade. In other words, regional trade blocs lead inevitably to regional government, with supra-national authority seeking to control all the elements that make up the price of the freely-traded goods and services, including working practices, environmental standards, the currency, product quality, product liability, legal systems, and so on and so on until there is little or nothing left for national governments to control--and until all comparative advantage which is the whole basis of trade) is eliminated."
The main reasoning behind the globalist push for economic cooperation globally is the belief that economic stability will eliminate war. The new world order they envision will be an age of peace and prosperity, a kingdom built on earth by man without God.
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