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Which side are you on?, December 20, 2000
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This review is from: One World (Paperback)
We've heard the buzz words for years now. New World Order. New Age. One World. Global village.
Lured by delicious visions of peace on earth, equality for all mankind, equitable distribution of wealth and ecologically sustainable development, a groundswell of opinion, of hope, has been growing for generations. We want to live in a true democracy; a world free of war, or pain, where all of life is revered as it should be. We read the glossy New Age magazines and the publications issued by the Council on Foreign Relations, and we watch the world's military going into trouble spots to co-operate in bringing peace. We participate in the new spirituality. We learn that all paths lead to God - nay, that we ourselves are gods - and we listen to channelled revelation about a coming paradise on earth when negative thought forms will have been abolished.
Ever since President George Bush Senior used the term during the Gulf War in 1991, a new world order has been firmly on the international agenda. Since then, diverse organizations have worked feverishly to amalgamate the great institutions of society - politics and international relations; the military; economy; education and religion.
But what, really, is behind this New World Order? And what will you, the average citizen of Planet Earth, get out of it?
One World is a detailed tour of the historical, philosophical, spiritual, economic and revolutionary background to the new world order. The author presents a tightly woven and comprehensive overview of a plan, that has been operating for centuries, and which is now reaching completion. He demonstrates how the world's money supply has been concentrated in few hands, outlines the influence of secret societies on political success, demonstrates the real agenda behind new educational approaches aimed at producing a generation of fodder for the new world order - children raised without learning to think for themselves.
Brooke's thesis is that we, the citizens of this planet, are being sold a bill of goods - a great lie, generations in the making, designed to enslave us and remove our freedoms using the age old arguments of ecological necessity, the need for spiritual evolution, and so forth. He examines closely the spiritual influences behind the One World Religion and finds the same shadows - hidden players, whispering sweet words into religious leaders' ears, capturing the world with temptation and the promise of temporal power.
Who are these spiritual hierarchies? What is their true agenda? Once the world has been disarmed and cobbled together under a single leader, what will everyday life be like for the masses? And what will be required of those who would be leaders of this brave world? What kind of bargains will they have to sign in their own blood?
One World is a brilliant exploration of the forces behind globalism. It explains the issues clearly and succinctly. Its conclusions, reached after exhaustive intellectual analysis, are compelling.
This book ought to be required reading for anyone interested in globalism.
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The Tyranny of Man's Philosophy unveiled, July 26, 2002
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Tal Brooke has an astounding capacity for social and cultural analysis. His brilliant weaving of the progress of thought through history and their resultant effects on society are worth the price of the book. From philosophy through psychology and into politics, education and spiritualism, his insights are well researched and told with narrative vivacity. Very helpful for anyone who wants a big picture understanding of why we are the way we are now as a society. I love his colorful analogies throughout like when he debunks modern man's attempt at removing God from his seat of dominion in philosophy and replacing him with ourselves as the center. He likens this to standing next to a life-sized cardboard cutout photo of a celebrity and taking a picture and presto! We think we are now in the picture with that celebrity, while really we are fools to think so. Anyway, while I don't share Tal's end time millenialism with a future "Antichrist," I still consider his warnings very pertinent to the danger of worldwide tyranny and despotism. Future Antichrist or not, man has a drive toward tyranny in all his culture and beliefs.
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This book is a masterpiece, November 14, 2001
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Aside from its infrequent sardonic passages, this book is a masterpiece.
Today's gospel of multiculturalism contains a moral calculus that denies not only the difference between good and evil, but goes even further by denying good and evil outright. Instead, an elitist professorate allied with a cadre of new age prophets proclaim there are no facts beyond political perspective and no reality beyond the constructs of language. We are told that tolerance, not truth, must reign supreme. Yet it is precisely the purveyors of the religion of tolerance that are incapable of tolerating anything other than their utopian vision. And on that utopian vision all possessing sanity must be horrified. A common theme of all utopian thinking is to view at least one segment of humanity possessing derivative value (Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Barbara Marx Hubbard, to name just a few). We must embrace the simple fact of history that Hitler and Stalin killed more people off the battlefield than all of the battles of World War II combined. With enough faith, however maligned, people can be led to believe, and perpetrate, anything. Thus enter new age prophet and self-appointed sage Brian Swimme, who perhaps best exemplifies new age doctrine when he wrote: "The well-being of the Earth is primary. Human well-being is derivative." Chilling words indeed. In this case, the phrase Thousand Year Reich is replaced with the phrase Well Being of The Earth. So the stage is set: environmentalism becomes a handy epistemology for eliminating from the planet all who continue to prevent the Great Harmonic Convergence. All that the Hubbard's and the Swimme's of the world require now is power. And make no mistake, as Tal Brooke convincingly argues, how their ilk would proceed with power in hand.
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