NEW WORLD ORDER

NEW WORLD ORDER

Everybody wants to rule the world • Globalism is fundamental to CTs • If CTs are about connecting to explain, then, doing so beyond the nation is inevitable and even necessary – about power, world power, subversion. • So CTs have a history related to History – Reality of monarchial power – Fears engendered by overturning of such power - the French Revolution and its export

• Is why the grand-daddy are the Bavarian “Illuminati” founded by Adam Weishaupt, 1776 • Not tied to ignorance. Illuminati as in 8th C Enlightenment. Saw secrecy as necessary

Vision of the Secret Elite • The Illuminati – as a general term now • Freemasons & Rosicrucians (often tied to religious issues, eg claim that the Masons are secretly Satanic • Signs and symbols (their ID card) • Jews (Protocols of the Elders of Zion forgery) • Communists - John Birch Society • “One World” Internationalists – CFR, Trilateral Commission, the United Nations

• Corporate power – The Bilderberg Group – World Economic Forum meet in Davos – Bohemian Grove , the owls and the cremation of care

The New World Order • The phrase “new world order” is a staple of these “globalist” conspiracy theories • It is not their invention – track back the term • A version appears on the dollar bill…(the New Order of the Ages) • Was used most often recently by elder George Bush following close of Cold War, especially at the first Gulf War 1991 • Spoke to a real change post Cold War • But mere use served as confirmation of old CTs – as if the corner of curtain had been lifted • Is rarely used now by US authorities, but…

Reaction: American Patriots • Militias were a striking phenomenon of the post Cold War 1990s, amidst globalisation – focused selves on threat of a “New World Order” • Used historic model to create small connected organisations – the Militia (by State)… • Narrative of subversion of US Govt, UN control and “invasion” of USA (eg 1994 Donahue) • Often held fundamentalist Christian - Libertarian outlook, Survivalist and “End Times” focused • Have largely faded from the scene – only a few survive though some revival post Obama, eg the Oathkeepers

Left Wing New World Order • As both a counter and complementary trend • Similar focus on global control and often similar villains, though focus more on corporate • For instance, WTO – the Battle of Seattle 1999 • Other meetings since, eg London, Washington, Prague. • May Day has been adopted anew. • Environmentalist accent – oil corps • Noam Chomsky seer – essential vision is of governmental/corporate deceit - a “New World’s Order” (aka American power, McDonalds, the Iraq War, Oil, etc) • Fears of new order of technology

Reality of Globalism • In an interconnected, inter-related world, we can see NWO CTs as a shadow, mirror, a narrative that seeks to render the complex contained and comprensible, when other stories don’t satisfy • No doubt that the powerful do organise and align (eg Bilderberg meetings do happen); power does unite and secretly (corporate fraud) • Contemporary examples of locale – Climate change as conspiracy – Recent financial crises

• But are CTs about the global a potential moment of new activism or are they a fantasy distraction?

An industry • UK – David Icke – Books, website, appearances, lectures

• US – Alex Jones – Websites (Prison Planet / Infowars), web radio, sw radio, web video, DVD – Doyen of modern NWO conspiracists – Sites show fantastic degree of detail and interconnection, weave their narrative – Often based on using news and things which are true, then given a NWO spin/implication – Hard not to disagree with fragments?

Some Jones’ Picks • • • • • • • • • • •

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