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objective is easy to discern: to draw those outside of the evolving "One World" into its grasp. Beyond including "poor people" in "decisions that may affect their lives" is the implicit acknowledgement that if their lives are already not being affected by globalisation then they soon will be. The other funds also contribute, though perhaps less notably. The little-known Rockefeller Family Fund, for instance, acts as a conduit for donations from other philanthropic organisations, including the Rockefeller, Ford, Turner, Scherman and Packard Foundations, to environmental causes such as preventing global warming and promoting a "Green Car". The RFF also provides money to the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization, the organisation used by many foundations to fund NGOs.” The even more obscure Laurance Rockefeller Charitable Trust funds activist groups, such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an organisation that has targeted the fast food industry for legal action in its determination to force people to eat healthy foods.“ The pur- pose of this funding is always the same: to increase the pressures on governments and to mould public opinion in service of the broader Utopian goal of "One World". The waning of direct Rockefeller influence does not, unfortunately, mean the decline of the program by any means, for there are plenty of new rich who share the same objectives and who are determined to use their wealth to the same ends. The notorious currency speculator George Soros, for example, has long portrayed himself as a supporter of a "global open society". Mirroring David Rockefeller's trilateralist concept, Soros has called for an alliance of the "democratic states of the world", led by the United States working with the European Union, to build a "global open society" by reforming the UN and other supranational institutions including the World Trade Organization.* He has devoted the resources of his main philanthropic organisation, the Open Society Institute, to this goal. Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, is another in this league, who demonstrated his intentions through his US$1 billion donation to the United Nations in 1997. "I see myself as a citizen of this Earth," Turner once told Gorbachev.** Though Turner's fortunes have waned, other plutocrats—among them Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, both intent on dispersing most of their fortunes—are waiting in the wings. The agenda of the Rockefellers and their successors is hidden in plain sight. If we look past the veil of media-led denial and ridicule, one does not have to look far to find it. Whether we just watch it unfold is another matter... oo CONCLUSION The purpose of this series has been to document the evolution of the Rockefeller family's internationalist ideology from the 1920s through to the present day. Underlying this analysis is an assump- tion, gleaned from the various primary documents cited, that the Rockefeller strategy for a New World Order or "One World" has two essential mutually reinforcing components: firstly, the promo- tion of international economic integration; and secondly, the estab- lishment of strong supranational institutions. The origins of this agenda can be traced to the ideas of US President Woodrow Wilson, which were then passed on to John D. Rockefeller, Junior, by his adviser, Raymond B. Fosdick. Junior's sons, especially David and Nelson, have done the most to promote, expand and implement this agenda. The current generation of Rockefellers, in contrast, seems little more than guardians of a legacy—one that the network of Rockefeller philanthropies and policy-planning groups continues to endorse. About the Author: Will Banyan, BA (Hons), Grad. Dip. (Information Science), is a writer specialising in the political economy of globalisation. He was worked for local and national governments as well as some international organisations, and was recently consulting on global issues for a private corporation. He is currently working on a revisionist history of the New World Order. Will Banyan can be contacted by email at banyan007@rediffmail.com. [Here endeth the sixth and final part of this lengthy series. We have put all six parts onto our website, http:// www.nexusmagazine.com, along with endnotes and references. Ed.] Continued from page 35 29, Rio+5 Forum, "Global Governance for 36. ibid. 22. Laurance Rockefeller, "The Case for a Sustainable Development”, March 18, 1997 at 37. ibid. . " , hn: http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio5/mar | 8/work- 38. Abby M. O'Neill, Chairman's Essay, from Sir Lie Sige Mle tanta Deka ben.html. the 1997 RBF Annual Report, at IRSA ISifa, 700 (ipa Bae) 30. Statement of CFR Task Force, Promoting http://www.rbf.org. 23. ibid. pp. 64-65. US Economic Relations with Africa, May 22, 39. "Global Security Program: Introduction to 24, "Laurance S. Rockefeller Grants $190,000 1997, at CFR website, http://www cfr.org, the RBF's New Global Security Guidelines", at for Faculty Projects Support for 'New Story of 34, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Civil Society __http://www.rbf.org. the Universe’ Projects", Inner Eye, February 8, and Global Governance, High-Level Panelon 40. "One World: Global Security, Grants", at 2001, at CIIS website, http://www.ciis.edu UN-Civil Society, June 13, 2003, at UNweb- _hitp://Avww.rbf.org. (emphasis added), site http://www.un.org/reform/pdfs/cardosopa- 41. Laurie Ann Mazur and Susan E. Sechler, 25. The following list is derived from: per13june.htm. Global Interdependence and the Need for "Rockefeller Greets Aliens! A Rich Guy's UFO 39, David Rockefeller, Jr, "Reflections and Social Stewardship, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Dream", New York Observer, April 8, 1996; Visions: Business—Arts Alliances", October 14, 1997, pp. 5, 25-30. Peter Carlson, "Fertile Imaginations", New York 1997, at 42. See Rockefeller Foundation website, Times, August 10, 2002; and Paul Joseph http://www.beainc.org/programs.asp?pg=5. http://www.rockfound.org. Watson, "Counterfeit Foe — The Ultimate 33. Steven C. Rockefeller, "Building aGlobal 43. See "Rockefeller Family Fund" at Hegelian Dialectic", at PropagandaMatrix.com. — Culture of Peace: The Earth Charter", Orion http://www.undueinfluence.org. 26. See Watson, "Counterfeit Foe"; and Milton —_ Online, September 29, 2001. 44. On both the Trust and the CSPI, see William Cooper, Behold A Pale Horse, Light 34. Steven C. Rockefeller, "Rockefeller Speaks _http://www.consumerfreedom.com. Technology, 1991, pp. 232-235. Up for the Earth Charter", The New American, 45. See George Soros, Open Society: 27. See Susan Adams, "The Reluctant November 4, 2002. Reforming Global Capitalism, Little Brown & Rockefeller", Forbes, May 3, 1999, p. 86. 35. Steven C. Rockefeller, "An Introduction to — Co., 2000, pp. 330-359. 28. See the Synergos Institute website at the Text of the Earth Charter", at 46. Quoted in Janet Lowe, Ted Turner Speaks, http:/www.synergos.org. http://www.earthforum.org. John Wiley & Sons, 1999, p. 187. P: y 36 * NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2004