by Qutb » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:22 am
those that have attended Garrison's State of the World Forums, as are David Rockefeller and James Baker. And, for that matter, Jesse Jackson. And, as mentioned above, Bush, Thatcher, Shultz, Brzezisnki. Now, what's a co-organizer of events that gather such dignitaries doing in the 9/11 Truth Movement?<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.pvbr.com/Issue_1/faithnfreedom.htm" target="top">From</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> a slightly paranoid and vehemently anti-environmentalist report from the Crisis Magazine/Catholic World Report:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>In the week preceding the six billionth birth, world glitterati, Nobel laureates, religious celebrities, United Nations ideologues, ivy league professors, psychics and international entrepreneurs gathered at the State of the World Forum to decry the western worldview responsible for the earth's impending doom. Western worldview is a code phrase for Christian order. A new order is proposed by luminaries who no longer shrink from using the once conspiratorial phrase, New World Order. The Forum was the fifth annual gathering at San Francisco's posh Fairmont Hotel [(the United Nations Charter was drafted there in 1945)] where participants paid $5,000 for six days anti-Christian, anti-Western indoctrination at the hands of the world's "brain trust." <br><br>Past and present speakers at the Forum include: George Bush (Bush's use of the term NWO during the Gulf war emboldened others) Margaret Thatcher, James A. Baker, III, Nobel Peace Laureate, Oscar Arias, defrocked Dominican New Ager, Matthew Fox, psychic Jean Houston, Desmond Tutu, futurist John Naisbitt, Carl Sagan, Chairman of Congregation of Religious Orders, USA, Sr . Joan Chittister, Jesse Jackson, Deepak Chopra, alternative medicine star, Andrew Weil, Queen Noor of Jordan, Earth Council president, Maurice Strong, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, primatologist, Jane Goodall, Lee Butler, former commander of Strategic Air Command, Yashuhiro Nakasone and Shirley McClain . <br><br>These members of the "brain trust" were joined by US senators and business leaders (David Rockefeller, Steve Kirsch, CEO of Infoseek), Nobel laureates, spiritual gurus, indigenous peoples' representatives and world class scientists. World peace, a UN army, nuclear disarmament, and ecology rounded out the six day agenda, but the centerpiece was a the call for a "new world spirit" which recognizes the "unity of the human family" and the necessity of a world federation to keep peace in the family. <br><br>A roster of the world's heaviest weights cannot be quickly dismissed as posturing professors and aging mystics- their hands control the levers of finance, education, entertainment, business, and science. The Forum, which seeks to set "priorities, values and actions necessary to guide the human community into the coming century" and fosters a "new code of human responsibility," ( the Ten Commandments no longer apply) is a project of the Gorbachev Foundation.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br>Remember Sarfatti's statement about the Gorbachev Foundation (in bold in my original post). As always, one should follow the money, and this is where that leads, according to Mary Jo Anderson of Crisis Magazine:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The Gorbachev Foundation, a think tank billed as an "educational foundation dedicated to addressing the challenges of and articulating new priorities for the post-Cold War world" has made its American home at San Francisco's Presidio, a former Navy base, transformed into a campus for sustainability education. Three million dollars in seed money from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Pew and Mellon Funds, launched Gorbachev's return from retirement. The Gorbachev Foundation's companion environmental organization is Green Cross International, instituted in 1993, at a "time of global crisis…in which the very elements that sustain life are threatened…[Green Cross was founded ] to create a shift in our thinking, to transform our environment, to sustain our world." Promoting a "bill of rights for the earth" the chairman of Chernobyl finds no incongruity in reciting his litany of environmental transformation.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Garrison is mentioned:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> Attendees mingled happily among the rich and powerful. Most admitted they had not paid the hefty $5,000 registration fee. Forum president, Jim Garrison, conceded that only one fourth of the 800+registrants had paid, "We want openness, what we are about is transparent and we invite participation by a diverse group of people. We bring people here on fellowships," said the co-founder of the defunct Christic Institute. No orthodox Jewish, Christian or Muslim representatives were in attendance. Garrison resisted the idea that the $5,000 fee was a means of screening out conservatives since no such group had received a "fellowship." Equally as curious was the media blackout-with the rich and famous five bodies deep, where were the cameras? More than one observer suggested it was an attempt to "be transparent in the dark."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br>It may be too paranoid, but considering the funding sources, and the general <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>wrongness</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> as alluded to by starroute, I'm inclined to agree with Ms Anderson's conclusion:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Gorbachev's concern for nuclear arms control and sustainable development prompted a turn to theopolitics as a means to combat what he identifies as a "global crisis of spirit": "It is my view that the individual's attitude toward nature must become one of the principal criteria for ensuring the maintenance of morality…Honoring diversity and honoring the earth creates the basis for the genuine unity." Once these values are codified in international law transgressors of the new dogma will be "punished without fail." A kinder, gentler totalitarianism. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Gorbachev is known to be a Theosophist and is also claimed to be a Maitreya enthusiast (by "Maitreya's diplomat", Wayne Peterson).<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> The key to understanding World Goodwill and similar groups' passionate work on behalf of the Earth Charter is their zeal for one world spirituality and a one world government; both causes are advanced by the Earth Charter. Oneness of consciousness is the goal--a global, integral thought process for mother earth. A plenary session of the State of the World Forum entitled "The Implications of the New Physics on Science and Spirituality" gave rise to discussions of the physics of consciousness, a belief that human mental energy, properly focused, possesses the power to propel evolution to the final stage-providing man can be herded into GroupThink. Hence the massive push toward one government and one spirituality wherein the great mass of mankind will think in sync on behalf of the planet. Proponents believe a harmonious global spirituality is the key to evolutionary perfection. In their construct, any belief system which thwarts this harmony is a threat to man's ultimate perfection. Christianity "interrupted" man's relationship, expressed through pagan and nature religions, with the earth which is his source and sustenance. Neo-Paganism, thus, is dressed up as a rediscovery of man's original spirituality, unmarred by "religion."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:black;font-family:century gothic;font-size:x-small;"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Qutb means "axis," "pole," "the center," which contains the periphery or is present in it. The qutb is a spiritual being, or function, which can reside in a human being or several human beings or a moment. It is the elusive mystery of how the divine gets delegated into the manifest world and obviously cannot be defined.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><br></p><i></i>