Reshaping Public Opinion and the White Coated Propagandists:

“Atomic and political scientists from Harvard University
and MIT meeting in November 1975 concluded that an atomic war will
certainly occur before the year 2000. This, they believed, could only
be prevented by the decision of all nation-states to surrender their
sovereignty to an authoritarian world government, a possibility they
viewed as unlikely.” – RIO: Reshaping the International Order, 1976 (p46)

Public opinion is not generated by the public it is
driven into them by marketing and propaganda. One of the main aspects
of generating public opinion is the use of experts or specialists to
tell the public what to think and give them a false sense of security
derived from the belief that there are armies of experts making all of
the difficult decisions for them. What if the legions of experts are
just white coated propagandists?

The Club of Rome is a premiere think tank composed of approximately
100 members including leading scientists, philosophers, political
advisors, former politicians and many other influential bureaucrats and
technocrats. This series of articles describes the major conclusions of
the 1976 book Rio: Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome
[1] coordinated by Nobel Laureate Jan Tinbergen. The RIO report
“addresses the following question: what new international order should
be recommended to the world’s statesmen and social groups so as to
meet, to the extent practically and realistically possible, the urgent
needs of today’s population and the probable needs of future
generations?”

Part 1
of this series gives an overview of the proposed new international
order described by the RIO report as “humanistic socialism”. This
includes: collective neighbourhood armies, a fully planned world
economy, global free trade, public international enterprises, proposed
changes in consumption patterns among other topics. Changes to the
financial system including international taxation and the creation of a
World Treasury, World Central Bank and World Currency are examined in part 2. Part 3
addresses the redefinition of sovereignty from “territorial
sovereignty” to “functional sovereignty” as well as the use of the
concept of the “common heritage of mankind” to gain international
control of not just the oceans, atmosphere and outer space but also all
material and non-material resources.

Importance of Public Opinion

Any attempt at creating a new international order requires the
reshaping of public opinion from their current modes of thought into
newer more appropriate forms. This important detail was not overlooked
by The Club of Rome.

From RIO: Reshaping the International Order:

[Italicised text is original emphasis and bolded text is added by author.]

“The possibility of implementing ideas of a new power
structure would, in democratic societies, necessitate the acceptance of
such ideas by wide sections of public opinion. It is of paramount
importance, therefore, that new ways and means be found to establish,
within industrialized countries, contacts between formal and informal
groups of concerned citizens, scientists and politicians…” – 109

Political feasibility. Crucially important especially during the early phases of the transformation of the existing order…” – 101

“Development implies a constant destruction of sociological and
psychological structures. The real problem of development is cleverly
to balance positive and real improvements with severe destructions… It
is the responsibility of every nation to make its own choice between
economic progress and socio-psych structure destructions, and to define
its own fundamental objectives for real development, which is the
development of man as a totality and of the totality of men.” – (Part
of RIO member Maurice Guernier’s position statement) – 321

“The satisfaction of needs implies that each person available for
and willing to work should have an adequately remunerated job…
Education is the most important non-material component for fulfilling
individual ambitions… At a higher level, education not only contributes
directly to individual satisfaction by developing that individual’s
spiritual endowment, but also indirectly by preparing the individual, mentally as well as morally, for a future role in a changing world…” – 64

Reshaping Public Opinion

Public opinion is not generated from the public, but rather given to them from politicians, experts, fiction, news media, etc.

“Public opinion is no phenomenon sui generic. It is in part the result of government policies and by definition politicians cannot hide behind their own creation. If
some sectors of public opinion in the industrialized countries are
immersed in the rhetoric and slogans associated with misunderstanding,
then much of this may be inherited from their political leaders
.
And if these leaders are in part responsible for a situation which
impedes acceptance of the need for change, then they themselves must be
held responsible for changing this situation.” – 110

No Technocracy, Just White Coated Propagandists

“One of our main weapons in this search is the vast
arsenal of scientists we are potentially able to deploy. To fully
utilize this resource, we must deliberately choose to focus
investigation in directions we believe to be really relevant.” – 107

“In political process too, the search for ‘new combinations’ can be
expected to produce valuable results. Such a search is likely to
demonstrate the responsibilities which scientists and other specialists
have, not only to their nations, but also to the constituency of
mankind. In the past, specialists have often been reluctant to engage
in political debate or to share their knowledge and fears with the
general public. Given social dilemmas, they have often preferred to
adopt neutral rather than value positions, to tacitly advise rather
than openly advocate. This generalization no longer holds true. In many
branches of science there are radical movements. Increasingly, both in
the rich and poor worlds, scientists are involved in active advocacy
which they see as an intellectual and ethical duty.

These observations suggest that specialists be provided with greater
opportunities to participate in the making of decisions in areas of
vital importance to the future of mankind This is not to suggest the
creation of a technocracy nor that political will can ever be
substituted by scientific expertise… Specialists must serve as
‘advocates of the unborn’ and the expansion of their role can be viewed
as an example of functional representation in international decision-making.

Not only must specialists advocate courses of action in
international fora, they must also more fully commit themselves to
development efforts at the local level. Their commitment must be total,
their allegiance to a problem or community unstinting. Experts
operating through bilateral and multilateral channels have not always
meet these requirements. The ‘new expert’, in actively promoting local
self-reliant development, may need to subordinate his own values even his knowledge,
to those of the community he is attempting to serve. We have seen the
rise of ‘barefoot doctors’; we must encourage the rise of ‘barefoot
experts’.” – 108

The above quote clearly states that the “new
experts” should form a league of white coated propagandists willing to
subordinate their knowledge (the only thing they have to offer) to a
desired political agenda. It should also be noted the use of the term
“functional representation”. This is significant because the Club of
Rome redefines sovereignty from what they call “territorial
sovereignty” to “functional sovereignty” completely changing the
meaning of sovereignty. More on the redefinition of sovereignty here.

Using Other Groups

“The most important options for organizing institutions
lie in three main areas. The first relates to the way in which the
means of operating society are grouped into bunches which can appropriately be handled by one institution. From
the viewpoint of efficiency, the most suitable approach would be to
group together those means requiring similar techniques of control
.
The second option concerns the various levels of decision-making and
the hierarchy corresponding to it. This important structural
consideration applies to single institutions as well as to the relationship between persons and between institutions. … Third… Membership should not
be limited to national governments; it should also embrace
non-governmental organizations of many kinds operating at different
levels.” – 101

“Whereas national public opinion may exist in the singular,
internationally it exists in the plural… Groups of many different
kinds, both in and outside the production process – students, trade
unions, scientists – from both the Third World and the industrialized
countries should join forces in their attempts to shape public and
political opinion. The aim here must be the internationalization of attempts at ‘conscience-raising’.
There would appear to be tremendous scope for a range of
non-governmental organizations in this field and for cooperation among
them.” – 111

“… a conscious attempt must be made to organize intellectual and
political lobbies to re-educate international public and political
opinion.” – 177

“Convincing Public and Political Opinion: Coordinated and
intensified effort should be made, particularly in industrialized
countries, to publicize the need to create an international social and
economic order which is perceived as more equitable
by all peoples. … The primary task of many non-governmental
organizations must be to undertake the effort suggested.” – 122

The Ministry of Third World Truth

The Club of Rome proposes the creation of a Ministry of Third World Truth to help shape international public opinion.

“Such reform [of news media] should include the creation
of a Third World information centre to specifically serve Third World
needs and to facilitate the dissemination of information on the Third
World, both in industrialized and Third World countries.” – 111

Conclusion

The creation of a World Food Authority and its use for population control is examined in part 5. The final article
in this series deals with a variety of issues including global
solidarity, regional unions, legal changes and a standing United
Nations Peace Force.

[1] Quotes from Jan Tinbergen, RIO: Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome (1976). ISBN 0-525-04340-3

Communism is supposedly a Russian, Chinese sort of thing.
At least this is what most people have been led to think. Like many
views foisted upon us, this too is also incorrect. The simple truth
about communism is that it was designed and built in England, albeit
with the use of immigrant labour. This of course at a time when we
still built things. Who, for instance, do you think paid for that
half-wit Marx to sit on his tush for 20 years grinding out his dozy
manifesto at the British Lending Library? Answers on a postcard please
to . . .

The ultimate capitalists ultimately back
communism. They ought to, they paid for it (using money stolen from the
masses via usury based central banking systems) and want it above all
other things. It lays the foundation for the globalist feudal society
they are seeking to bring about via their useful idiots in the EU and
soon, no doubt, the NAU (North American Union).

The following article by Lord Christoper Monckton, former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher, recently appeared in Executive Intelligence Review.
It clearly articulates some of the key aspects of the erosion of
Britain under the retarded ideology that is socialism. A good primer
for anyone coming to this for the first time as well as for those more
seasoned in their understanding.

-START-

“EU’s Lisbon Treaty Means Dictatorship”

by Lord Christopher Monckton

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the
Communist species of fascism has spread westward by stealth to infect
the European Union, whose complex treaties—now hated and feared by the
overtaxed, over-regulated peoples of Europe—more closely parallel the
Soviet Constitution than they do any constitution of liberty or
democracy. . . .

The new “President of Europe” (it may well
be Tony Blair, who did his best to buy the job at UK taxpayers’ expense
by agreeing to increase the UK’s tribute to the dismal empire of
Brussels by a staggering $50 billion a year) will have all the powers
of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The European Commission, like the Politburo to which it is functionally
identical, has the sole power to propose and hence to reject European
legislation. Like the Politburo, it is unelected and self-perpetuating.
Any Commissioner (and it is neither joke nor coincidence that the
German word for “Commissioner” is “Kommissar”) has the power to issue
an edict which has the immediate force of supreme law throughout the
subject territories, no longer known as “member States” but as
“regions”—effectively, regional Soviets subsidiary to, and now utterly
subservient to, the Supreme Soviet in Brussels. The European
Parliament, like the Duma or People’s Congress of the Soviet Union, has
no power to propose legislation, and its decisions can be (and often
are) overridden by the Kommissars.

The Parliaments of the “regions,” such as
the UK Parliament, have no power to amend or reject any of the
Kommissars’ edicts, whose undemocratic nature may be deduced from their
official name—”Directives.” On 200 occasions in the past decade alone,
the legislative scrutiny committee of the House of Commons has rejected
European directives, but the functionally-Communist regional gauleiters
Blair and [British Prime Minister Gordon] Brown have enacted every one
of the Directives, regardless of the will of the people’s elected
representatives.

Civil Rights Trampled

As of last December, the power which I
once had as a Deputy Lieutenant of London to order the troops on to the
streets to assist in civil emergencies or disasters was taken away by
order of a Kommissar, and Britain no longer has the legal right put her
army on to her own streets without that Kommissar’s express permission.
As of this year, under the pretext of compliance with a European
anti-terrorist Directive, the right to a fair trial before a
properly-constituted and impartial court was abolished in the UK for
any criminal case defined as “serious”: and even offences as trivial as
dropping litter in public places are now treated by the regional
gauleiters as serious. Without a hearing, without the right of legal
representation, the gauleiters can imprison any UK citizen for five
years at a time, confiscate his house, freeze his bank accounts, close
or compulsorily take over any business which he may own, or extradite
him to any overseas country (including the most unspeakable
dictatorships) even in the absence of any prima facie evidence
whatsoever against him.

The news media say little about any of
this, for it is now regarded as almost an offense to speak out against
the gauleiters or against the European dictatorship, which in any event
deploys an annual propaganda budget of $2.5 billion — an amount of
which the late Dr. Goebbels could only dream. The BBC alone received
$300 million from the Kommissars last year. It very seldom utters a
word of criticism against the European Union. What do the British
people think about this?

The few who know about it — and it is no
coincidence that they are the same few who know what a false and
dishonest scam the “global warming” scare is—are horrified. The people
as a whole are now so uneasy about what is happening that, even though
few know the full details, they are now making it clear in every
opinion poll that they do not want the Lisbon Treaty. Indeed, it is now
certain that if there were a referendum on the Treaty in the UK, it
would be crushingly defeated.

The two functionally-Communist parties in
the regional legislature at Westminster—the majority Labour party and
the “Liberal” “Democrats”—each made written promises in their
manifestoes for the last national elections that they would give the
British people a referendum on the Treaty before it was ratified.

Recently, the leaderships of both parties,
knowing that any referendum would reject the Treaty overwhelmingly,
have accordingly reneged on their promises, and samizdat debates are
now being held on the question whether their failure to honor those
promises and their consequent transfer of our own elected
representatives’ powers to the unelected hands of the alien power that
the European Union has become constitutes treason.

It is indeed treason: but the UK courts
are now mere rubber-stamps for the dictators. In the British
constitution, the largest body of Members of Parliament not belonging
to the governing party used to be known as “Her Majesty’s Loyal
Opposition.” However, the Conservative Party under its current weak,
vapid, and policy-averse leadership has consistently failed to oppose
the inexorable and soon-to-be-final extinction of what was once our
democracy. In the absence of any Parliamentary opposition, millions of
Britain’s leading minds have already fled overseas, taking their wealth
and their talent with them, in a brain drain not seen since the ghastly
days of Harold Wilson and the dominance of the Communist-led trades
unions. I myself spent ten years overseas, but have recently returned
and shall be doing my best to fight to regain my nation’s independence
and democratic liberties.

Britain Now a Police State

Britain is now a closed country—a police
state, with a Secret Police to rival the KGB. Our Secret Police was
secretly founded by the present Government in 1998, and now its
privileged and untouchable members mount dawn raids just like the KGB
and then lie through their teeth in court to secure convictions against
any citizen who has offended the regional gauleiters or the European
Kommissars. There are “security” cameras every few inches—more of them
than in any other nation. At current rates of growth, there will be a
“security” camera for every UK citizen within a decade. In a sinister
sequence of more than 90 criminal justice Bills in ten years, the
present Government has removed every last one of the rights and
freedoms of which Britain was once justly proud. We are no longer
allowed even to demonstrate outside Parliament. It was the ninetieth of
those Bills—passed with very little attempt at opposition—that took
away the right of criminal trial.

Now, our “leaders” fawn as sycophantically
upon our new, grim, European masters as their predecessors once did
during the long and foolish period of appeasement that tempted Hitler
to rearm unopposed and then to provoke the Second World War. This time,
though, it is sycophancy by stealth. Not so long ago, a UK Cabinet
Minister who refused to sign a European “Directive” was told by his own
civil servants that if he did not sign it he could and would be
stripped of his office and have all his possessions confiscated.
Instead of resigning and going public, he cravenly and secretly signed.
His story has never been made public. Another UK Cabinet Minister, who
had agreed with a Directive and had written to congratulate the
Kommissars on it, was summoned to Brussels and told that, although all
the “regions” and the European Parliament had agreed the Directive, the
Kommissars of Europe (who had proposed it, for they alone have the
power to do so) had decided that it was not of any consequence and that
it would not be enacted into law. When the astonished Minister was
asked why, he was told that the Kommissars had wanted to make it clear
to elected Ministers in all of the “regions” where the real power in
Europe now lay—and it was not in their elected hands. He told me, “I
had once been wholeheartedly in favor of the European Union. But it was
at that moment that the scales fell from my eyes.” He died an
implacable opponent of the new Europe.

And my own view? I am in favor of European
democracy, and therefore firmly opposed to the atheistic-humanist,
bureaucratic-centralist dictatorship that the European Union for which
I once voted has so stealthily become. In Scotland, where the current
“regional” gauleiter wants us to be independent of Westminster (which
makes one tenth of our laws) but still subject to the dismal empire of
Brussels (which makes nine-tenths of our laws), I lead a small but
rapidly-growing movement in the Highlands and Islands which is aiming
for independence from both Edinburgh and Brussels, but continuing
loyalty to the Crown. We want our freedom back, and we are quietly
planning to take it back, whether the gauleiters of the UK or the
dictators of Europe like it or not. We will rise up and be a nation
again.

Let freedom ring!

-END-

HatTip The Column

Communism is supposedly a Russian, Chinese sort of thing.
At least this is what most people have been led to think. Like many
views foisted upon us, this too is also incorrect. The simple truth
about communism is that it was designed and built in England, albeit
with the use of immigrant labour. This of course at a time when we
still built things. Who, for instance, do you think paid for that
half-wit Marx to sit on his tush for 20 years grinding out his dozy
manifesto at the British Lending Library? Answers on a postcard please
to . . .

The ultimate capitalists ultimately back
communism. They ought to, they paid for it (using money stolen from the
masses via usury based central banking systems) and want it above all
other things. It lays the foundation for the globalist feudal society
they are seeking to bring about via their useful idiots in the EU and
soon, no doubt, the NAU (North American Union).

The following article by Lord Christoper Monckton, former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher, recently appeared in Executive Intelligence Review.
It clearly articulates some of the key aspects of the erosion of
Britain under the retarded ideology that is socialism. A good primer
for anyone coming to this for the first time as well as for those more
seasoned in their understanding.

-START-

“EU’s Lisbon Treaty Means Dictatorship”

by Lord Christopher Monckton

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the
Communist species of fascism has spread westward by stealth to infect
the European Union, whose complex treaties—now hated and feared by the
overtaxed, over-regulated peoples of Europe—more closely parallel the
Soviet Constitution than they do any constitution of liberty or
democracy. . . .

The new “President of Europe” (it may well
be Tony Blair, who did his best to buy the job at UK taxpayers’ expense
by agreeing to increase the UK’s tribute to the dismal empire of
Brussels by a staggering $50 billion a year) will have all the powers
of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The European Commission, like the Politburo to which it is functionally
identical, has the sole power to propose and hence to reject European
legislation. Like the Politburo, it is unelected and self-perpetuating.
Any Commissioner (and it is neither joke nor coincidence that the
German word for “Commissioner” is “Kommissar”) has the power to issue
an edict which has the immediate force of supreme law throughout the
subject territories, no longer known as “member States” but as
“regions”—effectively, regional Soviets subsidiary to, and now utterly
subservient to, the Supreme Soviet in Brussels. The European
Parliament, like the Duma or People’s Congress of the Soviet Union, has
no power to propose legislation, and its decisions can be (and often
are) overridden by the Kommissars.

The Parliaments of the “regions,” such as
the UK Parliament, have no power to amend or reject any of the
Kommissars’ edicts, whose undemocratic nature may be deduced from their
official name—”Directives.” On 200 occasions in the past decade alone,
the legislative scrutiny committee of the House of Commons has rejected
European directives, but the functionally-Communist regional gauleiters
Blair and [British Prime Minister Gordon] Brown have enacted every one
of the Directives, regardless of the will of the people’s elected
representatives.

Civil Rights Trampled

As of last December, the power which I
once had as a Deputy Lieutenant of London to order the troops on to the
streets to assist in civil emergencies or disasters was taken away by
order of a Kommissar, and Britain no longer has the legal right put her
army on to her own streets without that Kommissar’s express permission.
As of this year, under the pretext of compliance with a European
anti-terrorist Directive, the right to a fair trial before a
properly-constituted and impartial court was abolished in the UK for
any criminal case defined as “serious”: and even offences as trivial as
dropping litter in public places are now treated by the regional
gauleiters as serious. Without a hearing, without the right of legal
representation, the gauleiters can imprison any UK citizen for five
years at a time, confiscate his house, freeze his bank accounts, close
or compulsorily take over any business which he may own, or extradite
him to any overseas country (including the most unspeakable
dictatorships) even in the absence of any prima facie evidence
whatsoever against him.

The news media say little about any of
this, for it is now regarded as almost an offense to speak out against
the gauleiters or against the European dictatorship, which in any event
deploys an annual propaganda budget of $2.5 billion — an amount of
which the late Dr. Goebbels could only dream. The BBC alone received
$300 million from the Kommissars last year. It very seldom utters a
word of criticism against the European Union. What do the British
people think about this?

The few who know about it — and it is no
coincidence that they are the same few who know what a false and
dishonest scam the “global warming” scare is—are horrified. The people
as a whole are now so uneasy about what is happening that, even though
few know the full details, they are now making it clear in every
opinion poll that they do not want the Lisbon Treaty. Indeed, it is now
certain that if there were a referendum on the Treaty in the UK, it
would be crushingly defeated.

The two functionally-Communist parties in
the regional legislature at Westminster—the majority Labour party and
the “Liberal” “Democrats”—each made written promises in their
manifestoes for the last national elections that they would give the
British people a referendum on the Treaty before it was ratified.

Recently, the leaderships of both parties,
knowing that any referendum would reject the Treaty overwhelmingly,
have accordingly reneged on their promises, and samizdat debates are
now being held on the question whether their failure to honor those
promises and their consequent transfer of our own elected
representatives’ powers to the unelected hands of the alien power that
the European Union has become constitutes treason.

It is indeed treason: but the UK courts
are now mere rubber-stamps for the dictators. In the British
constitution, the largest body of Members of Parliament not belonging
to the governing party used to be known as “Her Majesty’s Loyal
Opposition.” However, the Conservative Party under its current weak,
vapid, and policy-averse leadership has consistently failed to oppose
the inexorable and soon-to-be-final extinction of what was once our
democracy. In the absence of any Parliamentary opposition, millions of
Britain’s leading minds have already fled overseas, taking their wealth
and their talent with them, in a brain drain not seen since the ghastly
days of Harold Wilson and the dominance of the Communist-led trades
unions. I myself spent ten years overseas, but have recently returned
and shall be doing my best to fight to regain my nation’s independence
and democratic liberties.

Britain Now a Police State

Britain is now a closed country—a police
state, with a Secret Police to rival the KGB. Our Secret Police was
secretly founded by the present Government in 1998, and now its
privileged and untouchable members mount dawn raids just like the KGB
and then lie through their teeth in court to secure convictions against
any citizen who has offended the regional gauleiters or the European
Kommissars. There are “security” cameras every few inches—more of them
than in any other nation. At current rates of growth, there will be a
“security” camera for every UK citizen within a decade. In a sinister
sequence of more than 90 criminal justice Bills in ten years, the
present Government has removed every last one of the rights and
freedoms of which Britain was once justly proud. We are no longer
allowed even to demonstrate outside Parliament. It was the ninetieth of
those Bills—passed with very little attempt at opposition—that took
away the right of criminal trial.

Now, our “leaders” fawn as sycophantically
upon our new, grim, European masters as their predecessors once did
during the long and foolish period of appeasement that tempted Hitler
to rearm unopposed and then to provoke the Second World War. This time,
though, it is sycophancy by stealth. Not so long ago, a UK Cabinet
Minister who refused to sign a European “Directive” was told by his own
civil servants that if he did not sign it he could and would be
stripped of his office and have all his possessions confiscated.
Instead of resigning and going public, he cravenly and secretly signed.
His story has never been made public. Another UK Cabinet Minister, who
had agreed with a Directive and had written to congratulate the
Kommissars on it, was summoned to Brussels and told that, although all
the “regions” and the European Parliament had agreed the Directive, the
Kommissars of Europe (who had proposed it, for they alone have the
power to do so) had decided that it was not of any consequence and that
it would not be enacted into law. When the astonished Minister was
asked why, he was told that the Kommissars had wanted to make it clear
to elected Ministers in all of the “regions” where the real power in
Europe now lay—and it was not in their elected hands. He told me, “I
had once been wholeheartedly in favor of the European Union. But it was
at that moment that the scales fell from my eyes.” He died an
implacable opponent of the new Europe.

And my own view? I am in favor of European
democracy, and therefore firmly opposed to the atheistic-humanist,
bureaucratic-centralist dictatorship that the European Union for which
I once voted has so stealthily become. In Scotland, where the current
“regional” gauleiter wants us to be independent of Westminster (which
makes one tenth of our laws) but still subject to the dismal empire of
Brussels (which makes nine-tenths of our laws), I lead a small but
rapidly-growing movement in the Highlands and Islands which is aiming
for independence from both Edinburgh and Brussels, but continuing
loyalty to the Crown. We want our freedom back, and we are quietly
planning to take it back, whether the gauleiters of the UK or the
dictators of Europe like it or not. We will rise up and be a nation
again.

Let freedom ring!

-END-

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“Functional” Sovereignty and the Common Heritage of Mankind *

Knowledge Driven Revolution
Brent Jessop
21.04.2008

“The achievement of this global planning and management system calls for the conscious transfer of power
- a gradual transfer to be sure – from the nation State to the world
organization. Only when this transfer takes place can the organization
become effective and purposeful.” – RIO: Reshaping the International Order, 1976 (p185)

This article addresses the redefinition of sovereignty from
“territorial sovereignty” to “functional sovereignty” by The Club of
Rome. Also discussed is the use of the concept of the “common heritage
of mankind” to gain international control of not just the oceans,
atmosphere and outer space but also all material and non-material
resources.

The Club of Rome is a premiere think tank composed of approximately
100 members including leading scientists, philosophers, political
advisors, former politicians and many other influential bureaucrats and
technocrats. This series of articles describes the major conclusions of
the 1976 book Rio: Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome
[1] coordinated by Nobel Laureate Jan Tinbergen. The RIO report
“addresses the following question: what new international order should
be recommended to the world’s statesmen and social groups so as to
meet, to the extent practically and realistically possible, the urgent
needs of today’s population and the probable needs of future
generations?”

Part 1
of this series gives an overview of the proposed new international
order described by the RIO report as “humanistic socialism”. This
includes: collective neighbourhood armies, a fully planned world
economy, global free trade, public international enterprises, proposed
changes in consumption patterns among other topics. Changes to the
financial system including international taxation and the creation of a
World Treasury, World Central Bank and World Currency are examined in part 2.
Territorial Sovereignty versus Functional Sovereignty

From RIO: Reshaping the International Order:

[Italicised text is original emphasis and bolded text is added by author.]

“Given the growing list of problems confronting mankind,
every effort must be made to stimulate processes which point in
directions which can be deemed desirable. This would certainly apply,
for example, to the tendency towards the increasing centralization of
decision-making involving issues beyond national frontiers should be
viewed as a logical continuation of the process of change and a
precondition for the effective assertion of national sovereignty.” – 103

The “increasing centralization of [international] decision-making”
being a “precondition for the effective assertion of national
sovereignty” may seem contradictory. The reason for this
misunderstanding is your definition of sovereignty is based on an
apparently outdated “territorial sovereignty” instead of the much more
modern and politically correct “functional sovereignty”.

“In other words, the traditional concept of territorial sovereignty should be replaced by the concept of functional sovereignty,
which distinguishes jurisdiction over specific uses from sovereignty
over geographic space. This would permit the interweaving of national
jurisdiction and international competences within the same territorial
space and open the possibility of applying the concept of the common
heritage of mankind both beyond and within the limits of national
jurisdiction.”- 172

That is right, “sovereignty” no longer involves governmental control
within a geographic space, rather it refers to governmental control of
specific functions within a geographic space. Which functions would
depend on the dictates of a world authority.

“Acceptance of these elements calls for a
reinterpretation of the concept of national sovereignty. Participation
and social control suggest a functional rather than a
territorial interpretation of sovereignty, or jurisdiction over
determined uses rather than geographical space. Conceptually, this
interpretation will make possible the progressive internationalization
and socialization of all world resources – material and non-material -
based upon the ‘common heritage of mankind’ principle
. It also
permits the secure accommodation of inclusive and exclusive uses of
these resources, or, in other words, the interweaving of national and
international jurisdiction within the same territorial space…
Ultimately, we must air for decentralized sovereignty with the network of strong international institutions which will make it possible.” – 82

Common Heritage of Mankind as “Functional Ownership”

“… the new concepts of functional sovereignty and functional ownership (common heritage of mankind).” – 314

“The [Communist Yugoslavian] concept of social ownership and its
attributes are clearly applicable to the ‘common heritage’ concept.” -
81

“Effective planning and management calls for the fundamental
restructuring of the United Nations so as to give it broad economic
powers and a more decisive mandate for international economic
decision-making… It is also hoped that major changes in the United
Nations structure will be made over the next decade so that it is not
only able to play a more forceful role in world political affairs but
it is also able to become more of a World Development Authority in
managing the socio-economic affairs of the international community. …
The most effective way of articulating the planning and management
functions of this organization would be through a functional
confederation of international organizations, based upon existing,
restructured and, in some instances, new United Nations agencies – to
be linked through an integrative machinery. This system and its
machinery, if it is really to reflect interdependencies between nations
and solidarity between peoples, should ultimately aim at the pooling and sharing of all resources, material and non-material, including means of production,
with a view to ensuring effective planning and management of the world
economy and of global resource use in a way which would meet the
essential objectives of equity and efficiency.” – 185

“In the long term, and assuming progress towards the creation of an
equitable international economic and social order leading to a pooling of material and non-material resources, mineral resources will need to be viewed as a common heritage of mankind.
This concept implies both a real world market for all mineral resources
and a system of world taxation to replace national mining taxation. The
revenues collected should be redistributed among Third World countries
- possibly through such an agency as IDA [International Development
Association - World Bank group]…

This tax could, for instance, be introduced as one of a moderate
rate and gradually be raised to something in the order of 70 per cent
of profits on fossil fuels and 50 per cent of the value of production
of ores (including uranium).

Such a tax would, like the present taxes on oil products, in fact be paid by the consumers…

Such a tax, at the rates proposed, would probably induce consumers
to restrict their consumption of mineral raw materials…” – 148

This concept includes the manipulation of the Third World “national
liberation” movements in the post colonial era. These are only stepping
stones toward “functional sovereignty”.

“[Third World territorial sovereignty] is a weapon which must be used in the struggle for a new international order.” – 247

“After the exercise of national sovereignty by Third World countries
over their national resources has helped to establish more equality
between mineral producing and consuming countries, a switch to
the concept of the ‘common heritage of mankind’ is recommended and a
gradual transformation of the principle of territorial sovereignty into
functional sovereignty. This must be viewed as the most desirable
approach to the world management of national and other resources,
material and non-material.
” – 150

“Sovereignty and the Common Heritage of Mankind… the first objective
to be achieved is the attainment by Third World countries of full
sovereignty over their resources in compliance with the UNCERDS [United
Nations Charter of the Economic Rights and Duties of States]. Only
after this objective has been achieved can the concept of the common
heritage of mankind, traditionally limited to resources considered as res nullius such as the
oceans and outer space, be expanded to new domains such as mineral
resources, science and technology, means of production and other
sources of wealth
. After the exercise of national sovereignty
has contributed toward the creation of a more equitable international
order, the aim should be to pool all world resources – material and
non-material – with a view to ensuring effective planning and
management of the world economy and of global resource use in a way
which would meet the dual objectives of equity and efficiency. In this
perspective resources would need to be managed on the basis of
decentralized planetary sovereignty. Proposals contained in the
following chapters for the application of the common heritage concept
to particular fields should thus be viewed in this broader context.” -
123

Remember when you hear the term “Common Heritage of Mankind” it does
not just refer to the oceans, atmosphere and outer space, it refers to
all material and non-material resources. Anything that might be
considered a source of wealth would be brought under strict
international authority. Keep in mind non-material resources includes,
among other things, the education of “human resources”.

Conclusion

The next part
in this series discusses the generation of public opinion and the use
of white coated propagandists. The creation of a World Food Authority
and its use for population control is examined in part 5. The final article
in this series deals with a variety of issues including global
solidarity, regional unions, legal changes and a standing United
Nations Peace Force.

[1] Quotes from Jan Tinbergen, RIO: Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome (1976). ISBN 0-525-04340-3

“Functional” Sovereignty and the Common Heritage of Mankind *

Knowledge Driven Revolution
Brent Jessop
21.04.2008

“The achievement of this global planning and management system calls for the conscious transfer of power
- a gradual transfer to be sure – from the nation State to the world
organization. Only when this transfer takes place can the organization
become effective and purposeful.” – RIO: Reshaping the International Order, 1976 (p185)

This article addresses the redefinition of sovereignty from
“territorial sovereignty” to “functional sovereignty” by The Club of
Rome. Also discussed is the use of the concept of the “common heritage
of mankind” to gain international control of not just the oceans,
atmosphere and outer space but also all material and non-material
resources.

The Club of Rome is a premiere think tank composed of approximately
100 members including leading scientists, philosophers, political
advisors, former politicians and many other influential bureaucrats and
technocrats. This series of articles describes the major conclusions of
the 1976 book Rio: Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome
[1] coordinated by Nobel Laureate Jan Tinbergen. The RIO report
“addresses the following question: what new international order should
be recommended to the world’s statesmen and social groups so as to
meet, to the extent practically and realistically possible, the urgent
needs of today’s population and the probable needs of future
generations?”

Part 1
of this series gives an overview of the proposed new international
order described by the RIO report as “humanistic socialism”. This
includes: collective neighbourhood armies, a fully planned world
economy, global free trade, public international enterprises, proposed
changes in consumption patterns among other topics. Changes to the
financial system including international taxation and the creation of a
World Treasury, World Central Bank and World Currency are examined in part 2.
Territorial Sovereignty versus Functional Sovereignty

From RIO: Reshaping the International Order:

[Italicised text is original emphasis and bolded text is added by author.]

“Given the growing list of problems confronting mankind,
every effort must be made to stimulate processes which point in
directions which can be deemed desirable. This would certainly apply,
for example, to the tendency towards the increasing centralization of
decision-making involving issues beyond national frontiers should be
viewed as a logical continuation of the process of change and a
precondition for the effective assertion of national sovereignty.” – 103

The “increasing centralization of [international] decision-making”
being a “precondition for the effective assertion of national
sovereignty” may seem contradictory. The reason for this
misunderstanding is your definition of sovereignty is based on an
apparently outdated “territorial sovereignty” instead of the much more
modern and politically correct “functional sovereignty”.

“In other words, the traditional concept of territorial sovereignty should be replaced by the concept of functional sovereignty,
which distinguishes jurisdiction over specific uses from sovereignty
over geographic space. This would permit the interweaving of national
jurisdiction and international competences within the same territorial
space and open the possibility of applying the concept of the common
heritage of mankind both beyond and within the limits of national
jurisdiction.”- 172

That is right, “sovereignty” no longer involves governmental control
within a geographic space, rather it refers to governmental control of
specific functions within a geographic space. Which functions would
depend on the dictates of a world authority.

“Acceptance of these elements calls for a
reinterpretation of the concept of national sovereignty. Participation
and social control suggest a functional rather than a
territorial interpretation of sovereignty, or jurisdiction over
determined uses rather than geographical space. Conceptually, this
interpretation will make possible the progressive internationalization
and socialization of all world resources – material and non-material -
based upon the ‘common heritage of mankind’ principle
. It also
permits the secure accommodation of inclusive and exclusive uses of
these resources, or, in other words, the interweaving of national and
international jurisdiction within the same territorial space…
Ultimately, we must air for decentralized sovereignty with the network of strong international institutions which will make it possible.” – 82

Common Heritage of Mankind as “Functional Ownership”

“… the new concepts of functional sovereignty and functional ownership (common heritage of mankind).” – 314

“The [Communist Yugoslavian] concept of social ownership and its
attributes are clearly applicable to the ‘common heritage’ concept.” -
81

“Effective planning and management calls for the fundamental
restructuring of the United Nations so as to give it broad economic
powers and a more decisive mandate for international economic
decision-making… It is also hoped that major changes in the United
Nations structure will be made over the next decade so that it is not
only able to play a more forceful role in world political affairs but
it is also able to become more of a World Development Authority in
managing the socio-economic affairs of the international community. …
The most effective way of articulating the planning and management
functions of this organization would be through a functional
confederation of international organizations, based upon existing,
restructured and, in some instances, new United Nations agencies – to
be linked through an integrative machinery. This system and its
machinery, if it is really to reflect interdependencies between nations
and solidarity between peoples, should ultimately aim at the pooling and sharing of all resources, material and non-material, including means of production,
with a view to ensuring effective planning and management of the world
economy and of global resource use in a way which would meet the
essential objectives of equity and efficiency.” – 185

“In the long term, and assuming progress towards the creation of an
equitable international economic and social order leading to a pooling of material and non-material resources, mineral resources will need to be viewed as a common heritage of mankind.
This concept implies both a real world market for all mineral resources
and a system of world taxation to replace national mining taxation. The
revenues collected should be redistributed among Third World countries
- possibly through such an agency as IDA [International Development
Association - World Bank group]…

This tax could, for instance, be introduced as one of a moderate
rate and gradually be raised to something in the order of 70 per cent
of profits on fossil fuels and 50 per cent of the value of production
of ores (including uranium).

Such a tax would, like the present taxes on oil products, in fact be paid by the consumers…

Such a tax, at the rates proposed, would probably induce consumers
to restrict their consumption of mineral raw materials…” – 148

This concept includes the manipulation of the Third World “national
liberation” movements in the post colonial era. These are only stepping
stones toward “functional sovereignty”.

“[Third World territorial sovereignty] is a weapon which must be used in the struggle for a new international order.” – 247

“After the exercise of national sovereignty by Third World countries
over their national resources has helped to establish more equality
between mineral producing and consuming countries, a switch to
the concept of the ‘common heritage of mankind’ is recommended and a
gradual transformation of the principle of territorial sovereignty into
functional sovereignty. This must be viewed as the most desirable
approach to the world management of national and other resources,
material and non-material.
” – 150

“Sovereignty and the Common Heritage of Mankind… the first objective
to be achieved is the attainment by Third World countries of full
sovereignty over their resources in compliance with the UNCERDS [United
Nations Charter of the Economic Rights and Duties of States]. Only
after this objective has been achieved can the concept of the common
heritage of mankind, traditionally limited to resources considered as res nullius such as the
oceans and outer space, be expanded to new domains such as mineral
resources, science and technology, means of production and other
sources of wealth
. After the exercise of national sovereignty
has contributed toward the creation of a more equitable international
order, the aim should be to pool all world resources – material and
non-material – with a view to ensuring effective planning and
management of the world economy and of global resource use in a way
which would meet the dual objectives of equity and efficiency. In this
perspective resources would need to be managed on the basis of
decentralized planetary sovereignty. Proposals contained in the
following chapters for the application of the common heritage concept
to particular fields should thus be viewed in this broader context.” -
123

Remember when you hear the term “Common Heritage of Mankind” it does
not just refer to the oceans, atmosphere and outer space, it refers to
all material and non-material resources. Anything that might be
considered a source of wealth would be brought under strict
international authority. Keep in mind non-material resources includes,
among other things, the education of “human resources”.

Conclusion

The next part
in this series discusses the generation of public opinion and the use
of white coated propagandists. The creation of a World Food Authority
and its use for population control is examined in part 5. The final article
in this series deals with a variety of issues including global
solidarity, regional unions, legal changes and a standing United
Nations Peace Force.

[1] Quotes from Jan Tinbergen, RIO: Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome (1976). ISBN 0-525-04340-3