Volume 1, Number 3 -- July 30, 1996

GLOBAL VISION CORPORATION

The Global Vision Corporation is a non-profit corporation organized to:

"provide United Nations agencies, Non Governmental Organizations* (NGOs), socially- responsible corporations [what is it that makes a corporation socially-responsible?] , universities, think tanks, professional associations, religious groups, and leading thinkers working on solutions to global problems with a means to combine our insights, integrate our outreach, and deliver our message of a positive future more effectively to the global public."

This organization is involved in a number of different projects designed to further the United Nations' goal of a one-world, GLOBAL GOVERNMENT: (1) A series of 100 video clips relating to "sustainability;" (2) A computer simulation system called "Sustainable City;" (3) A "Global Centre for Religion," among others.

One of the others is a full length feature film aimed at the "Global Teenager." We are not likely to see this film at the local movie house nor on network TV. Look where the teenagers look -- maybe MTV -- the film is supposed to be a musical.

"Sustainable" or "sustainability" are a couple of other words that are getting a lot of use since the UN Conference on biodiversity. (The motto of Global Vision Corporation is, "Promoting The Development Of A Sustainable Civilization.") According to the elite group establishing the parameters of global biodiversity the western cultures, particularly America, have long been living lifestyles that are not sustainable and must make necessary adjustments to arrive at sustainable levels.

We are being fed a lot of misinformation in efforts to convince us there is a crisis situation with the environment and our natural resources. Most of what is being said has no true scientific basis, but is based on a pseudo science designed to frighten the world's people into accepting changes in life styles they would otherwise rebel against. The propagandists have had a great deal of practice, they have become experts at their art.

Much of the funding for organizations like Global Vision comes from tax exempt foundations. (Should Christian churches try to use their funds to push such political agendas they would quickly have the IRS yanking their tax exempt status.) A close scrutiny of many of these organizations will even reveal government grants -- our taxpayer dollars -- being used to take away rights our Constitution affirms.

(Just how are your constitutional rights being effected? Ask some of the people who have run afoul of land management agencies and the Clean Waters Act, an Act that has been completely rewritten from its congressional intent by bureaucratic regulations.)

Some people seem to think that when they put a lot of flowery sounding phrases together to form sentences and paragraphs they are actually saying something of import. We have found they are usually trying to mask their motives the way perfume masks a stench. The true communicator will use words that most people will easily understand and which do not lead to more than a single interpretation.

Examine this phrase: ...the Global Vision film will present a non-adversarial, transcultural, transdisciplinary overview of issues of collective concern . . .By reframing these issues in a McLuhesque montage that makes their mutual interactions become explicit the film will form a metacontext of information designed to involve the viewer in a psychological experience that turns one's attention back upon the process of one's own perception.

That's a mouthful! It sounds like the author really knows what he's talking about. Do you understand what he said? It's what we call psychobabble. It puts the would-be confronter at a loss for words to contradict the statement because he doesn't know what to contradict.

One might have said: "...the film will not directly attack the viewers' point of view. It will cross cultural lines and disciplines and present an overview of common concerns. These issues will be presented in a way that helps the viewer focus attention on his own way of looking at them, and how that might differ from others' perceptions."

In essence, the film will be a propaganda tool designed to change viewers' attitudes by presenting them with an alternate viewpoint that is weighted higher on some predetermined value scale.

The following is a quote of a passage relating to the Global Vision film:

If we are to develop a sustainable civilization on this planet, we will have to learn to cooperate on a global scale. To cooperate we will need to identify with what we have in common. To identify, we must first experience an expanded sense of our inner Self that transcends all the obsolete divisions received from the worldviews of our separate voyages through history.

You may not have been exposed to a lot of mysticism, but the quoted paragraph is right out of the Mystic's book of tricks. It is definitely New Age Religion, which isn't new at all but dates back to very early spiritism, shamanism, et al. What our erudite author is telling us is that we must forego a few thousand years of experience and tradition and trade them in for some mystical experience of our inner-selves. Don't think for a minute that this is too far-fetched or too ridiculous for the masses to fall for. Shirley McLain, among others, has quite a following, and have you taken note of who our First Lady has been communing with lately?

How does all this effect me? You may ask. Actually, the Clinton Administration has signed on to the UN Agenda 21, the report out of the UN Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. One of the provisions of that Conference: "States shall enact effective environmental legislation."

We have seen this in many areas of our lives already, and it is increasing. It is now getting down to local communities. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is working with local boards to implement provisions of Agenda 21. In a summary paper published in the Federal Register on July 1,1996, the EPA talks about "Sustainable Development Challenge Grants" and "Reinventing Environmental Regulation." In this paper it says: "The Sustainable Development Challenge Grant program is also a step in implementing Agenda 21, the Global Plan of Action on Sustainable Development, agreed to by the United States at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992." It further states: "The EPA will implement this program consistent with the principles of Executive Order 12898, -- Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations (February 11, 1994.) " [It has been noted by several commentators that the Clinton Administration is doing a lot of governing by Executive Order. In this way he can by-pass the Congress. Some of his Executive Orders have been so highly classified that even members of Congress are not authorized to see them. One wonders if they would stand any kind of test for constitutionality. It bothers us a great deal and should be of great concern to all citizens when government begins operating so secretively -- especially when there is no war and no apparent threat to national security.]

Essentially what this means is that these cities and towns are surrendering much of their autonomy to a regional planning board which then proceeds to "assist" them in their plans for the next 20 years. Once these plans are drawn up and agreed upon, future municipal administrations are bound by them. If some future Mayor and his administration disagrees with the direction the plan is taking them, he is not at liberty to simply ignore the plan.

We see the same policies when we look at the "United Nations Conference Agreements" the U. S. Senate is being asked to ratify -- and many already ratified. When we ratify these "treaties" we in effect surrender some of our sovereignty. We can no longer simply act in what we think is in our own best interest, but are bound under international law by the terms of the treaty.

Slowly but surely we are surrendering our right to act as a free and independent nation through the plethora of "agreements" coming out of the United Nations. This is not a procedure where we sit down and negotiate as disputes arise, these agreements are preemptive strikes destroying our independence, and they are reaching down into the small communities that have been the backbone of our once great nation.

In this process, the concept of "Sustainable Development" attained a preeminent position, and while the immediate participants in the development of New Pattonsburg are working in a voluntary capacity, the Charter they have drawn up will be a binding legal document on them and future residents of New Pattonsburg.

A preview of some of the rules and regulations for this experiment in Sustainable Development will give the reader some idea of what the future may hold for other U. S. communities, and these may not be voluntary. Since we have agreed to the conditions of the United Nations Agenda 21, we are more-or-less mandated to establish local laws that will bring us into conformity.

In New Pattonsburg residents will: a. use low flow showerheads; b. use gravity flow toilet tanks that use no more than 1.5 gallons per flush; c. install faucet aerators on kitchen & bathroom faucets; d. make provisions for storage & processing of recyclables and composting, including recycling bins near the kitchen, under sink door-mounted bucket with lid for compostibles and outside composting bin where feasible; e. preserve all existing trees where feasible; preserve natural drainage patterns; f. abide by such fertilizer and pesticides usage rules as are announced from time-to-time by the Board of Aldermen. Residential lots must have trees planted to maximize summer cooling.

Additionally there is an eight page list of Architectural Standards covering: 1. External Walls; 2. Building Elements; 3. Windows and Doors; 4. Roofs; 5. Gardens; 6. Landscape. Each of these elements is covered under the categories: A. Materials; B. Configuration; and C. Techniques. There is also a Miscellaneous category. Example: Brick shall be in a horizontal running bond pattern Example: Railings of steel or wrought iron shall be painted black.

Welcome to the New World Order !