Power Of The British Commonwealth Over The World

[Guest guest]

The Power Of The British

Commonwealth Over The World

By Joan Veon

Executive Director

The Women's International Media Group, Inc

2-8-5

 

Introduction

 

The following report on "The Power of the British Commonwealth Over

the World" began when I was at the WTO meeting in Cancun in

September 2003. There, several African countries held a press

briefing in which they said that they would starve if America and

other rich countries did not open their cotton and agricultural

markets to them. I asked several questions about their vast natural

resources (gold and strategic minerals) and if they had any monies

left over after their World Bank loans were paid. They refused to

answer. Afterward I spoke to each one and asked the following

questions and received the same response. Since they were

Commonwealth members, I asked if they could go to Britain for help.

They could not. So I then asked why they don't withdraw from the

Commonwealth if there is no help. With great alarm, they told me

they could not withdraw from this voluntary association. When I

returned home, I called the British Information Office to see if

they could tell me if the countries which Britain de-colonized in

the 1950s, 60s, and 70s received a vote at the UN at the time of

separation. The lady told me she would have to research my very good

question. She called the next day to tell me that every time a

country was granted independence from Britain, they were given a

vote at the UN. Bingo!

 

I have always questioned how Britain would regain control of America

when they were defeated by Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New

Orleans in 1812. Are we so naive to think that they would not try

some other way to "capture the world"? In the past ten years, as I

have covered the UN, I have been amazed at the number of suggestions

and key reports that come from the British which influence UN

policy. So, just how much power does Britain have in the world

today?

 

The first book that I wrote is 'Prince Charles the Sustainable

Prince' which has to do with the role of the British Royal Family as

the power behind the United Nations. This book asserts that the

British ARE the power behind the United Nations. This opinion has

not changed since I wrote Prince Charles. The prince is a key,

behind-the-scenes mover and shaker and is responsible for the

radical environmental agenda that perverts Genesis 1, 2, and 3 and

puts the earth above man and not man above the earth as God

intended. When I wrote Prince Charles, I was not aware of the

information you are now going to read.

 

A Brief History of Britain

 

The following is taken from the Internet site, "britania," and is

from 'England, A Narrative History' by Peter N. Williams. What I

have tried to do is to show the aggressiveness of this little island

nation and its role in the world today. Some of the sub-titles are

my interpretation of the material reprinted.

 

Early History

 

The Celtic culture in Early Britain developed about 1000 BC and came

from Gaul, driven from their homelands by the Romans who invaded in

55BC under Julius Caesar. In 43 AD an expedition was ordered against

Britain by Emperor Claudius who sent an army of 40,000 men. The

Romans established their bases in what is known as Kent and subdued

much of Britain in less than 40 years. They remained for nearly 400

years. After the Romans left, England entered a dark period. By 314

an organized Christian Church seems to have been established in most

of Britain. By 410 Britain had become self-governing in three parts.

In 597 St. Augustine was sent to convert the pagan English by Pope

Gregory. Ethelbert had married Bertha, daughter of the Merovingian

King and was practicing Christianity. The first Anglo-Saxon kingdom

in Britain was an Anglo-Celtic kingdom. In 726, Aethelbold called

himself "King of Britain" while his son Offa called himself "king of

all the English." For several hundred years, various kings in

various part of Britain tried to gain control. In 896, Alfred

occupied London. He was born in 849 and became King of Wessex in

871. Due to his battles with the Danes, he succeeded in becoming the

first king of England. Throughout the 8th century, the Danes,

Norwegians, Scandinavians, and British fought as to who would have

power and control. The Normans invaded England in order to secure

the throne for William of Normandy who was crowned King of England

at Westminster on Christmas Day, 1066. With him, came feudalism and

a new aristocracy. By 1086, other than small-estate holders, there

were in the whole of the land only two Englishmen holding estates of

any dimension. William insisted that landowners who had land from

the king produce a set quota of mounted knights which produced a new

ruling class in England. In this system, those at the bottom

suffered most, losing all their rights as free men and coming to be

regarded as mere property, assets belonging to the manor.

 

Feudalistic Sustainable Development

 

Further restrictions and hardship came from William's New Forest

laws and his vast extension of new royal forests in which all

hunting rights belonged to the king. The peasantry was deprived of a

valuable food source in times of bad harvests. In 1080,

the "Domesday Book" was begun and was an attempt to provide the king

with every penny to which he was legally entitled. It worked only

too well, reckoning the wealth of England, "Down to the last pig."

William sent his men into every village and had them find out how

many hides there were, what land and cattle the king should have in

the country, and what dues he ought to have in twelve months from

the town or village [JV: Does this sound like sustainable

development and the UN Biological Diversity Treaty?].

 

>From the rule of the Plantagenet's to Richard the Lionhearted and

the Crusades to King John who was forced to sign the "Great Magna

Carta" in Runnymede on June 15, 1215, to Edward I, Longshanks to

Henry VIII and to Queen Elizabeth I, the British kings and queens

were concerned with holding on to the power of the monarchy.

 

As a result of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by Elizabeth I and

her long reign, England saw remarkable economic growth and a time of

calm from her chaotic past. Industry and trade prospered under the

guidance of men like Secretary Cecil, later Lord Burghley. [JV: It

should be noted that Lord Burghley perfected torture techniques and

the secret police.] During her reign, many of the Dutch bankers and

capitalists from Antwerp flocked to London to find a new and more

secure international money and credit market. That year Thomas

Gresham opened the Royal Exchange in London to make it the financial

capital of the world. Cecil encouraged the fishing industry, the

source of England's navy and backbone of its sea power. English

sailors began their mastery of the world's oceans. Though little

more than pirates, these seamen laid the foundations of their

nation's naval superiority which was to last for centuries. John

Cabot discovered Newfoundland in 1497, Martin Frobisher established

trade with Moscow in 1555 to trade with Russia. Sir Francis Drake

searched the world for treasures.

 

Key British Economic and Trade Concepts In 1694, the Bank of England

was formed by a private stock company which raised their own funds

and issued their own money to be lent to the government "in

perpetuity." This started the concept of "central banking." Then a

group of merchants and sea captains at Lloyd's Coffee House in 1688

formed marine insurance which would underwrite enormous expenditures

in overseas ventures and shipping. On May 26, 1698, Parliament came

up with the idea of granting monopolies in trade by an act of

Parliament. This act created the East India Company. This company,

with the newly formed Bank of England showed only too well the

growing power of the British traders and financiers over the state

government (emphasis added). [JV: This is very key for they still

rule the world today.]

 

As a result of the East India Trading Company, the trading classes

were able to control parliament. It became one of the ever-

increasing problems for the country's government: the interference

of trade with legislation and administration was to become an

inevitable part of the future.

 

In 1496, John and Sebastian Cabot discovered Newfoundland and Nova

Scotia. England's own era of exploration, initiated by the Cabots,

was expanded by the journeys of Hugh Willoughby to seek a Northeast

Passage to China and the spice trade. He reached Moscow by way of

the White Sea and Archangel in 1553. As a result, the Muscovy

Company was founded by Richard Chancellor to trade with Russia in

1555. Then John Hawkins, who began his career high-jacking

Portuguese and Spanish ships in 1562, led to England's entering the

Slave Trade. David Ingram explored from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada

and reported finding vines with grapes as large as a man's thumb.

English mariner Francis Drake undertook his daring voyage of 1572 to

capture the Spanish treasure fleet returning from Peru, a feat

surpassed by his even greater haul one year later.

 

In 1580, Drake arrived back in Plymouth having circumnavigated the

globe in the Pelican, renamed the Golden Hind after the gallant ship

had passed through the Straits of Magellan. Drake was knighted by

the Queen after capturing the richest prize ever taken at sea. In

1584, Sir Walter Raleigh established a colony in Roanoke, Virginia.

One year later, Chesapeake Bay was discovered by Ralph Lane and

Davis Strait by John Davis.

 

In 1585, the first oriental spice to be grown in the New World,

Jamaican ginger, arrived in Europe. In 1586, Sir Richard Cavendish

became the third man to circumnavigate the globe when the ship the

Desire reached England after a voyage of over two years. When the

Portuguese closed its spice market in Lisbon to Dutch and English

traders, the Dutch East India Company was created to obtain spices

directly from the Orient. In 1600, the Honorable East India Company

was chartered to make annual voyages to the Indies and to challenge

Dutch control of the spice trade.

 

After James I made peace with Spain in 1604, he re-directed

England's efforts at colonizing North America and the Plymouth and

London companies sent ships and colonists. Jamestown, Virginia was

founded in 1607. That same year, Henry Hudson sought a route to

China and sailed around the Eastern Short of Greenland. In 1610,

Hudson's ship Discovery reached the strait later to be known as

Hudson Bay, Canada. In 1620, the Mayflower arrived off Cape Cod with

100 Pilgrims. In 1628, John Endicott arrived as the first Governor

of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1632, Maryland received its

charger by a grant from King Charles to Cecil Calvert. In 1655,

Admiral Penn captured Jamaica from the Spanish. In 1654, New

Amsterdam was renamed New York after its capture from the Dutch. A

year later, the New Jersey Colony was founded by English colonists.

The 1674 Treaty of Westminster returned New York and Delaware to

England. In 1681, Pennsylvania had its beginning in the land grant

given to William Penn. In 1698, William Dampier sailed on his

Pacific expedition to explore the West Coast of Australia.

 

In 1648, South Africa came to attention of Europeans when a Dutch

ship broke up and the survivors urged authorities to establish a

settlement for provisioning their East India fleets. In 1652, a

small group of Dutch settlers founded Cape Town. In 1815, Britain

gained its long-desired "half-way house" on the sea route to India

when the Dutch ceded the Cape of Good Hope. The British arrived in

1820. When diamonds were discovered in the Orange Free State, the

Boer War began. Then gold was discovered in the Transvaal in 1886.

Cecil Rhodes who founded the De Beers Mining Corporation in 1880 was

determined that the riches being discovered in South Africa were not

going to the Boer farmers. Rhodes dreamed of extending British rule

in Africa. Using his great wealth, amassed in the diamond and gold

fields, Rhodes with other imperialists established British colonies

to the north of the Boer territories. Both Northern and Southern

Rhodesia were granted charters by London. Eventually the Boer

republics were annexed to the British crown in 1900.

 

The South Sea company founded in 1711 had acquired a monopoly in the

lucrative Spanish slave trade and other trading ventures in South

America.

 

At the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Britain gained Canada, Nova Scotia,

Cape Breton, the right to navigate the Mississippi, the West Indian

Islands of Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica and Tobago in the West

Indies; Florida (from Spain); Senegal in Africa and the preservation

in India of the East India Company's monopoly, and in Europe,

Minorca.

 

In India, Robert Clive defeated pro-French forces at Arcot in 1751

thus helping his East India Company monopolize appoints, finances,

land and power. The British victory led to the withdrawal of the

French East India Company. Then Clive defeated the local Nabob at

Plassey to become virtual ruler of Bengal and opened up much of the

country to further exploitation and control by the East India

Company. India was regarded as the "jewel in the crown" of the

British Empire; over two thirds of the vast sub-continent was ruled

by the East India Company. Its finances and its troops were used to

protect British interests, even overthrowing native Indian princes.

 

In 1769, Captain Cook discovered a country that consisted of two

main islands, it was called New Zealand. In 1770, he explored the

eastern coast of what was then called "New Holland." He took

possession of the island continent in the name of George III.

Britain had found a new empire, Australia to resettle criminals and

to accommodate early settlers to help with the overpopulation in

Britain which the agricultural and industrial revolutions had

contributed to. In 1822, an article by James Mill on "colonization"

in the "Encyclopedia Britannica" offered emigration as a remedy for

over-population.

 

Between 1768 and 1781, Captain Cook made three exploratory voyages

to the West Coast of Canada. Because the Chinese were interested in

receiving fur in exchange for the tea, silks and porcelain which was

in demand in Europe, the British went further west. In 1788, a group

of English traders settled on Vancouver Island. Spain still claimed

the whole West Coast of America up to Alaska but after a

confrontation at Vancouver between the two countries, England

presented an ultimatum to the Spanish whose lack of allies and an

effective navy forced them to accept its terms. The Spanish

recognition of British trading and fishing rights in the area opened

the way for the establishment of British Columbia and the creation

of a British North America. In 1867, the British North America Act

united Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the

Dominion of Canada.

 

When Admiral Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet

near Gibraltar in 1805, the long struggle between Britain and France

for world supremacy ended. English soldiers were involved in a war

with China over British export of opium from India in exchange for

silks and tea. When China forbade the opium trade and fired on a

British warship, they were bombarded by a Royal Navy squadron. The

Opium War ended with the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 that opened up

five "Treaty Ports" for trade and gave Hong Kong to Britain.

 

Britain's rise to a world power meant that she found interest

everywhere. Not only was she now head of the self-governing colonies

such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, but also the vast Empire of

India and a veritable host of dependent territories all over the

world's oceans. Most of these had been acquired somehow to protect

the merchants and traders of England. On the following page, you

will find a chart of British interference and domination in the

affairs of the world.

 

Observations of Commonwealth Countries While I could make numerous

observations about the various countries that comprise the

Commonwealth countries, I would like to offer the following:

 

1. There is an interesting mix between extremely wealthy countries

such as Australia, Canada, Brunei, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE

versus the Highly Indebted Poor Countries-HIPC such as Bangladesh,

Mozambique, Uganda and the Sudan.

 

Many of the HIPC have vast mineral resources which are used to pay

for World Bank loans instead of building infrastructure. Please

refer to Prince Charles the Sustainable Prince. For example:

 

Ghana ñ Rich in gold, bauxite, manganese, diamonds

 

Guyana ñ Rich in bauxite, manganese, gold, diamonds Mauritania ñ

Iron and copper ore Senegal ñ Petroleum refining Sierra Leone ñ

Diamonds, chrome, bauxite and iron ore Uganda ñ Copper and cobalt

Tanzania ñ Rich in gold, diamonds and coal Zambia ñ Rich in copper.

 

2. By the number of countries that the British invaded, ruled and

plundered, you can see that "the sun never sets on the British

Empire."

 

3. Israel was a British Mandate and then was made a country by vote

at the United Nations.

 

4. The financial and economic power of some of the Commonwealth

Countries and those invaded by the British is as follows:

 

Australia ñ rich in coal, gold, meat, wool, machinery, iron ore,

bauxite, natural gas, uranium and petroleum. Brunei ñ Rich in oil

and gas with 79 million barrels of oil exported in 2001. It also has

forests, fish, rubber and pepper. Kuwait ñ Has 10% of the world's

oil reserves at 98 billion barrels. India ñ Has textiles, chemicals,

steel, transportation equipment, cement and petroleum. Nigeria ñ The

most populous country with proven oil reserves of 27 billion barrels

and natural gas reserves of 4 trillion cubic feet along with coal,

peanuts and palm oil. Malaysia ñ Rubber, palm oil and electronics.

Oman -Has oil and natural gas with some copper, gold, manganese, and

goal. Qatar ñ Has 5% of the world's oil reserves of 14.6B barrels

and proven natural gas of 17.9% trillion cubic feet. Singapore ñ

Electronics, chemicals, transportation equipment, one of the world's

largest petroleum refining centers and an important ship-building

center. South Africa ñ The world's largest producer of platinum,

gold and chromium. UAE ñ Has 10% of the world's oil reserves

estimated at 98.1 billion barrels and natural gas at 5.8 trillion

cubic feet as well as largest producer of dates and fresh fruits,

has a national shipping fleet of more than 4,000 vessels, produces

aluminum, chemicals, paper and pharmaceuticals. Zimbabwe ñ Coal,

gold, copper, nickel, tin, clay, steel, wood, cement and chemicals.

 

While we are at it, let us make mention that most of the off-shore

trading and banking is conducted in the Cayman Islands which is part

of the UK. They have 40,000 companies as of 1998 with 600 banks and

trusts. AT that time, banking exceeded $500B.

 

Definition of Commonwealth

 

The English word, "Commonwealth", dates from the 15th century and

indicates one of the following: a nation, state or political unit, a

state founded on law by agreement of the people for the common good,

a republic, and/or a federated union of constituent states. The

Commonwealth of England was the official title of the political unit

that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England under the rule of

Oliver Cromwell.

 

The states of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia are

all "commonwealths" which emphasizes they have "government based on

the common consent of the people" (Source: Wikipedia.Org.)

 

The Commonwealth

 

According to an Internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia.org, "The

Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of independent

sovereign states, mostly formed by the United Kingdom and its former

colonies." Countries that "acknowledge the British monarch as head

of state are known as Commonwealth Realms" while all members

recognize Queen Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth.

 

The Commonwealth is the successor of the British Empire and has its

origins in the Imperial Conferences of the 1920s. The Commonwealth

was established as an association of free and equal states, and

membership was based on common allegiance to the British Crown.

 

 

The old British Empire, we are told, was dismantled after World War

II beginning with India and the activities of Mohandas Gandhi. A

number of the countries that have been de-colonized are republics.

Because several left the Commonwealth, they established the London

Declaration which provided for members to accept the British monarch

as Head of the Commonwealth regardless of their domestic

constitutional arrangements, and are now considered by many to be

the start of the modern Commonwealth.

 

The population of the Commonwealth is about 1.8 billion people which

comprise about 30% of the world's population. India is the most

populous member with a billion people while Pakistan, Bangladesh,

and Nigeria have more than 100 million people. The land of

Commonwealth nations equals about 1/4 of the world's land area.

Membership is open to countries that accept the association's basic

aims.

 

In recent years, the Commonwealth has suspended Fiji (2000-2001),

Pakistan from 1999-2004, Nigeria from 1995 ñ 1999, Zimbabwe was

suspended in 2002 and left the Commonwealth in 2003.

 

Organization and Objectives

 

Queen Elizabeth II is the nominal Head of the Commonwealth. Since

1965 there has been a London-based Secretariat. The current

Commonwealth Secretary-General is the former New Zealand Foreign

Minister Don McKinnon.

 

The objectives of the Commonwealth were set down in The Harare

Declaration of 1991. While it is not a long declaration, part of it

is reprinted only to show that there really is no real reason for

the UK to have the Commonwealth except to control the UN through the

Commonwealth. Its goals are exactly those of the UN. The Declaration

states in part,

 

The Heads of Government of the countries of the Commonwealth

reaffirm their confidence In the Commonwealth as a voluntary

association of sovereign independent states, each Responsible for

its own policies, consulting and co-operating in the interests of

their peoples and in the promotion of international understanding

and world peace.

 

The Commonwealth way is to seek consensus through consultation and

the sharing of experience. It is uniquely placed to serve as a model

and as a catalyst for new forms of friendship and co-operation to

all in the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations.

 

We believe that international peace and order, global economic

development and the rule of International law are essential to the

security and prosperity of mankind.

 

Internationally, the world is no longer locked in the iron grip of

the Cold War. Totalitarianism Is giving way to democracy and justice

in many parts of the world.

 

Many Commonwealth countries are poor and face acute problems,

including excessive population growth, crushing poverty, debt

burdens and environmental degradation.

 

Only sound and sustainable development can offer these millions the

prospect of betterment. Achieving this will require a flow of public

and private resources from the developed to the developing world,

and domestic and international regimes conducive to the realization

of these goals: environmental degradation, migration and refugees,

communicable diseases and drug production and trafficking.

 

Having reaffirmed the principles to which the Commonwealth is

committed, we pledge the Commonwealth and our countries to work with

renewed vigor, concentrating especially In the following areas: the

protection and promotion of the fundamental political values of the

Commonwealth.

 

How Voluntary is the Commonwealth?

 

You would think that if a country was de-colonized that Britain

would have a "hands-off" policy. That is not the case. Every

Commonwealth country that acknowledges the queen as head of state

has a representative of the queen who is called a "Governor-

General." The Governor-General retains all the reserve powers that

the Queen exercises in the UK which includes opening and closing

parliament and abolishing parliament. Furthermore, the Governor-

General appoints the prime minister and cabinet from the part with

the most support from the House of Commons. In Canada, for example,

the ten provinces all have a representative of the Queen! When

Parliament is opened, both the prime minister and the Governor-

General give a speech. The Governor-General delivers "The Speech

from the Throne."

 

Commonwealth Votes at the UN

 

When the UN was formed in 1945, Canada, New Zealand and the United

Kingdom had three votes. As the UK de-colonized countries, they were

made voting members of the United Nations. Then between 1946-1959

when the United Kingdom de-colonized a number of countries, their

votes increased by four: Ghana, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sir Lanka.

During 1960-1969, twenty more countries were de-colonized: Barbados,

Botswana, Cameroon, Cyprus, Gambia, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho,

Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone,

Singapore, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and Zambia. During

1970-79, ten more countries de-colonized: Bahamas, Bangladesh,

Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Mozambique, Papau New Guinea, Samoa, and

Solomon Islands. During 1980-89, seven more countries de-colonized:

Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Brunei Darussalam, Saint Kitts and

Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vanuatu, and Zimbabwe. The

last country to de-colonize was Namibia.

 

In addition, associated states, external territories and

dependencies include: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands,

Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Falkland Islands, Isle of Man,

Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, St. Helena, and Turks and Caicos

Islands. Those that come as a result of being part of Australia or

New Zealand include: Christmas Island, Cocos Island, Cook Islands,

Niue, Norfolk Island, and Tokelau.

 

Canada and the Free Trade Areas of the Americas Our neighbor to the

north and our largest trading partner, Canada, is the largest member

of the Commonwealth in this hemisphere. Canada is America's largest

trading partnerósurpassing our trade with Japan. On a daily basis

the volume is over $1B or about $400B a year. Twenty-three percent

of American exports are sent to Canada and more than 80% of Canada's

exports come to us. Canada is the largest export market for 39 of

the 50 states. We import 80% of Canada's wood, paper and pulp and

17% of their oil and 18% of their natural gas. Furthermore, we not

only share energy grids all across the northern borders but New

England obtains most of their power from Quebec.

 

>From a military standpoint, over the past 46 years, America has

been inextricably linked to Canada through our joint military

efforts through the North American Aerospace Defense Command-NORAD.

On September 11, it was a Canadian general who was holding the chair

at NORAD that gave the order to initiate our defenses. As a result

of September 11, more than 200 commercial planes were diverted to

airports across our country from coast to coast. Since then both

countries have implemented measures to strengthen military

cooperation as well as law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In

December 2002, they established the Bi-national Planning Group to

develop joint plans for maritime and land defense, and for military

support to civil authorities in times of emergency. In Canada,

President Bush expressed hope that our two countries would move

forward on a ballistic missile defense system.

 

In November, 2004 President Bush told Canada's Prime Minister Paul

Martin at a meeting on "Common Security, Common Prosperity, A new

Partnership in North America, "It's good to be home." He went on to

declare, "Both the U.S. and Canada participate together in more

multinational institutions than perhaps any two nations on

earthófrom NATO to the OAS to APEC in the Pacific." He went several

steps forward when he pledged,

 

My country is determined to work as far as possible within the

framework of international organizations and we're hoping that other

nations will work with us to make those institutions more relevant

and more effective in meeting the unique threats of our time.

 

With all this "interconnectedness," I would like to seriously

question our involvement with, not only Canada, but the Free Trade

Areas of the Americas-FTAA which is a trading zone for all the

countries in our hemisphere. Begun in 1994, the various cabinet

level secretaries of the 34 countries have been meeting throughout

the year since then to integrate our laws. In a the Western

Hemisphere, Canada, Antigua, the Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada,

Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the

Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago are members of the British

Commonwealth. We are outvoted by 13 votes to our one vote in our own

hemisphere! Let's take a look at the voting power of the

Commonwealth in the world today.

 

THE VOTING POWER OF THE COMMONWEALTH IN THE WORLD TODAY

 

Starting with the founding of the International Monetary Fund and

the World Bank in 1944, an economic international infrastructure was

established which was followed by a political international

infrastructure above the nation-states. Over the last 61 years, this

infrastructure has been developed to include trade, law, the

military and now intelligence as a result of the September 11

terrorist attacks on America. Interestingly enough, the Commonwealth

of Nations operates in each of these organizations. Not once has an

American President said, "Chose either the UN or the Commonwealth."

On the following page, you will see the power of the Commonwealth.

We are outvoted with our one vote at every turn.

 

Let me just make mention that on a regional basis, the U.S. and the

world are also outvoted: Free Trade Areas of the Americas by 13

votes, two votes in the European Union, and seven votes at the Asian

Pacific Economic Cooperation!

 

Furthermore, whenever a committee is formed at the UN, they

rotate "presidency". For example, if there are 4 Commonwealth

countries that are part of a committee of 15, that means Britain is

president 25% of the time. This is occurring throughout ALL of the

hundreds of committees, agencies, organizations, etc. throughout the

WHOLE of the UN system.

 

IN CONCLUSION

 

In conclusion, I believe the purpose behind the construction of the

international level is to transfer complete and absolute power to

Britain.

 

I can now see why Prince Charles was working behind the scenes. For

him to be center-stage along with the power of the Commonwealth

would look like they are in the process of using Francis Drake's

pirating methods to grab the world! You can now see how The British

have the majority of votes in the global organizations of the world

through the Commonwealth and not one major power has questioned the

ability of the Commonwealth to operate in tandem with the other

global organizations!

 

And while we are on the subject of being outvoted, let us turn to

the EU for a moment. When it came together the whole purpose was to

create a "United States of Europe." Now that the travel and trade

barriers are down between the European states which now total 25,

and they have adopted a common currency which is giving the dollar a

run for her money, and they have a common parliament in Strasbourg,

how come, they still have 25 votes at the UN instead of ONE? America

has 50 states and we only get ONE vote! There, the Commonwealth has

two votes: Malta and the UK. Globally Queen Elizabeth II has out-

maneuvered more than what her namesake did when she defeated the

Spanish Armada!

 

 

"Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The

kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel

together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, Let us

break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. He that

sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in

derision. Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in

his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of

Zion. I will declare: Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten

thee. Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for your

inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for your

possession." Psalms 2