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News and views of Constance Cumbey concerning "Radical Middle", New Age Movement, Communitarianism, "planetary humanism," "global governance," European Union, Javier Solana, Jeremy Rifkin, "New Age Politics," law in the USA, combined with life in general -- sometimes humorous, sometimes not!
| Global 2000 Report to the President - 1980 Pergamon Books version of 1977 President Carter commissioned report. |
| Excerpted page from New Age Journal - Earth Day 1990 issue where former President Carter writes for magazine and discusses his creation of the Global 2000 report mandate. |
| Earth Day 1990 NEW AGE JOURNAL cover. |
President Lyndon Johnson satisfied the demands with partial action. He authorized the formation of a Committee. That group near the end of his administration entitled "In July 1969 President Nixon sent to Congress a historic first population message, recommending the establishment by legislation of a blue-ribbon commission to examine the growth of the nation's population and the impact it will have on the American future. John D. Rockefeller Ill, who had started the Population Council, had been urging since the early days of the Eisenhower Administration that such a commission be established. Lyndon Johnson had refused to see Rockefeller in 1964, but by 1968, he was ready to yield to pressure and established the President's Committee on Population and Family Planning, co-chaired by Rockefeller and HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen.
There were certainly "items of interest" along with this person of interest (Willis Harman) who played such an important role in this relatively early stage of New Age planning for the last quarter of the 20th century. He called for the possibility of "radical societal change." Big money and big players including Robert O. Anderson the president of ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Company) were involved. Robert O. Anderson's name was later to become familiar to me in the context of Planetary Citizens and Planetary Initiative organizations founded by Lucis Trust activist Donald Keys.The Committee established by President Johnsonwas not a full-blown commission . Its report,sent to the President at the end of 1968, "Populationand Family Planning: The Transition fromConcern to Action, " suggested the establishmentof a presidential commission to give the problemfurther study. It recommended that family planningservices be extended to every Americanwoman unable to afford them. It also recommendedan increase in the budgets of HEW andthe Office of Economic Opportunity for the purposeof population research. The report wasreleased without publicity in January 1969 . . ."
Moynihan [Daniel Patrick]
(March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was the United States' Ambassador to the United Nations and to India, and was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, and continuing through that of Gerald Ford..
CHILD CARE -
The Commission recommends that both public and private forces join together to assure that adequate child-care services, including health, nutritional, and educational components, are available to families who wish to make use of them.
Because child-care programs represent a major innovation in child-rearing in this country, we recommend that continuing research and evaluation be undertaken to determine the benefits and costs to children, parents, and the public of alternative child-care arrangements.CONTRACEPTION AND THE LAW -
The Commission recommends that: (1) states eliminate existing legal inhibitions and restrictions on access to contraceptive information, procedures, and supplies; and (2) states develop statutes affirming the desirability that all persons have ready and practicable access to contraceptive information, procedures, and supplies.CONTRACEPTION AND MINORS -
The Commission recommends that states adopt affirmative legislation which will permit minors to receive contraceptive and prophylactic information and services in appropriate settings sensitive to their needs and concerns.
To implement this policy, the commission urges that organizations, such as the Council on State governments, the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Association, formulate appropriate model statutes.
VOLUNTARY STERILIZATION -
In order to permit freedom of choice, the Commission recommends that all administration restrictions on access to voluntary contraceptive sterilization be eliminated so that the decision be made solely by physician and patient.
To implement this policy, we recommend that national hospital and medical associations, and their state chapters, promote the removal of existing restrictions.
ABORTION -
With the admonition that abortion not be considered a primary means of fertility control, the Commission recommends that present state laws restricting abortion be liberalized along the lines of the New York statute, such abortion to be performed on request by duly licensed physicians under conditions of medical safety. In carrying out this policy, the Commission recommends:
That federal, state, and local governments make funds available to support abortion services in states with liberalized statutes. That abortion be specifically included in comprehensive health insurance benefits, both public and private.
METHODS OF FERTILITY CONTROL -
The Commission recommends that this nation give the highest priority to research on reproductive biology and to the search for improved methods by which individuals can control their own fertility.
In order to carry out this research, the Commission recommends that the full $93 million authorized for this purpose in fiscal year 1973 be appropriated and allocated; that federal expenditures for these purposes rise to a minimum of $150 million by 1975; and that private organizations continue and expand their work in this field.
FERTILITY-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES -
The Commission recommends a national policy and voluntary program to reduce unwanted fertility, to improve the outcome of pregnancy, and to improve the health of children.
In order to carry out such a program, public and private health financing mechanisms should begin paying the full cost of all health services related to fertility, including contraceptive, prenatal, delivery, and postpartum services; pediatric care for the first year of life; voluntary sterilization; safe termination of unwanted pregnancy; and medical treatment of infertility.
The Nixon era hearings were held. President Nixon named John D. Rockefeller III chairman of the 24-member group. They held hearings in many cities and they released volumes of materials. Their not-surprising, people-hating conclusions?.
POPULATION STABILIZATION -
Recognizing that our population cannot grow indefinitely, and appreciating the advantages of moving now toward the stabilization of population, the Commission recommends that the nation welcome and plan for a stabilized population.
POPULATION STABILIZATION -Recognizing that our population cannot grow indefinitely, and appreciating the advantages of moving now toward the stabilization of population, the Commission recommends that the nation welcome and plan for a stabilized population.
The Commission's conclusion was that no substantial benefits would result from continued growth of the nation ' s population: The population problem, and the growth ethic with which it is intimately connected, reflect deeper external conditions and more fundamental political, economic, and philosophical values. Consequently, to improve the quality of our existence while slowing growth, will require nothing less than a basic recasting of American values.
The anti-people component of what would later be called "The New Age Movement" was on its way back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It had clear Presidential blessings at that. They would continue to ride high through early 1982, confident in their expectation that they had "no backlash." Those "deeper external conditions" and "philosophical values" to be targeted for change clearly included our religious outlooks favoring "choose life that ye may live."
Footnotes
{1} Interestingly, there is an article by Former President Jimmy Carter in a 1990 New Age Journal (April 1990, page 54, In it he proudly acknowledges his role in commissioning the Global 2000 Report. I do not know if he is a self-conscious New Ager; however, I have received credible information that his sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton may have been. She was a speaker for one of Leland Stewart's Unity and Diversity Council Congresses, according to information given me by Rev. Gary Randall in Portland, Oregon in 1982. He had the information, he said, first hand for her. She departed from speaking at his church to go to that conference. Once he learned what the New Age Movement was really about, he made great efforts to get the word out on its "Hidden Dangers."
{2}The 1977 Global Report to the President [Jimmy Carter] included extensive references to Willis Harman (Future president of Institute for Noetic Sciences, author of "An Incomplete Guide to the Future.", World Watch Institute, E. F. Schumacher (Small is Beautiful Author)
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LONDON — A commission headed by former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan charges that the soaring cost of U.S. elections is a major hindrance to democracy. The charge appears in a report published Friday by the Global Commission on Elections and Democracy, which says its goal is to promote the integrity of elections.
Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan spoke to VOA at the launch of the report in London.
He says each nation must develop an election framework that suits its needs.
"As pro-democracy campaigners take to the streets across the Arab world, and as 19 African countries prepare to hold national elections this year, an international initiative to promote the integrity of elections was launched on 4 March 2011 in Pretoria, South Africa.
"Recent events in Côte d’Ivoire and elsewhere have highlighted more clearly than ever that elections are vital to democratic government, but they are not sufficient. Too often, we see incumbents rig the elections, illicit funding or media bias distort the electoral process, and losing candidates refuse to accept the results. Where elections are marred in these ways, people lose faith in democracy and the political process, and human rights and security are put at risk.
"The Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, jointly created by the International Institute for Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the Kofi Annan Foundation, is made up of 12 eminent individuals from around the world, including Kofi Annan, Ernesto Zedillo, Martti Ahtisaari, Madeleine Albright and Amartya Sen. It aims to highlight the importance of the integrity of elections to achieving a more secure, prosperous and stable world.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
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"I wrote this to explain to others what the New Age movement is for those who may have forgotten what it is. Names, dates, places and ideas that are pushed can be filled in, but here I wanted a short overview. If you have questions, email me.
The New Age movement is an offshoot of other movements, only it is well
organized. Occult/pagan practices probably go back to the beginning of time. The
New Age movement is a deliberate joining of occult organizations with politicalorganizations by well connected individuals with power. The organizationssupporting it have been growing for over a 100 years. That's the difference.
Do not underestimate the intelligence of those involved in growing that movement. Many people follow Judaism and Christianity without examination. A
much smaller group sees the flaws in organized religion but not its value. It
takes wisdom to move beyond that and few have developed that. A portion of thosein the middle believe they have developed a better system to make the world abetter place. This they wish to do by eliminating organized Judaism andChristianity and forming a united government to organize the world. They are filled with prideand lack wisdom.
Because so little information has been shared about the organized concrete
aspects of the New Age movement, it has become very easy to turn the heads of
people.
Cumbey put the pieces together in one book that was easy to understand which
is why it sold so well. Few who read the book were willing to go further in
knowing what it is. Her research goes into much greater depth. Those who can't
go past what appeared in her first book are not ready to pursue further
information. For example information on the Alliance of Civilizations was
presented here, at the blog. I remember only a few people picking up on that
information,examining it further and letting others know what they found. Most
people just want to sit on their heinies, give opinions and let others do the
hard work of research.
Infiltration into churches, synagogues and political movements by those who
have absorbed New Age ideas is quite easy because so very few have any ideas
what the are the concrete aspects of New Age. Little tidbits of information
presented in an unorganized manner won't make any difference.
Saying that New Age is complex and then going off and attacking religions is
a tactic used by propagandists for New Age. Telling others follow this or that
religion is useless in saving people from being seduced by New Age ideas if you
can't tell them what New Age is.
| The Highland Parker September 24, 1970 |
| The Highland Parker, February 15, 1971
Keep the discussion going on the last post and stay tuned. I'm off to Indiana for my 50th High School class reunion (Class of 1962).
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